Modernism today / edited by Sjef Houppermans [and three others] ; Jan Baetens [and seventeen others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houppermans, Sjef.

Baetens, Jan.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 72.

Textxet ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--Europe.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as “middlebrow”, “arrière-garde”, and to some extent even “avant-garde”, were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

WHAT MODERNISM WAS AND IS: BY WAY OF AN INTRODUCTION / Sascha Sascha and Dirk de Geest

TOWARDS MODERNISM / Hans Bertens

“THE WORLD IS A FINE ADVENTUROUS PLACE”: GRAHAM GREENE IN THE 1930's / Peter Liebregts

SORTIES OR ENTRENCHMENT: ROUSSEL, CREVEL AND ARAGON BETWEEN AVANT-GARDE AND ARRIǑE-GARDE / Sjef Houppermans

INTELLECTUAL SCEPTICISM VERSUS AVANT-GARDE BRAGGING: MODERNISM IN DUTCH LITERATURE / Jacqueline Bel

“THE FINAL CATHOLIC”: PAUL VAN OSTAIJEN, AND THE CATHOLIC RȖEIL AROUND THE FIRST WORLD WAR / Geert Buelens

ARRIǑE-GARDE PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF MODERN LITERATURE: THE CASE OF THE NETHERLANDS (1880-1940) / Koen Rymenants , Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten

HOW MODERNISM DISAPPEARED FROM FEDOR GLADKOV’S CEMENT BETWEEN 1924 AND 1958 / Arthur Langeveld

BIOCOSMISM AND THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE: A LITERARY CUL-DE-SAC OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY? / Otto Boele

TEN TIMES PESSOA / Paulo de Medeiros

MODERNISM IN GREEK LITERATURE (1910-1940) / Hero Hokwerda

FUN HOME: ITHACA, PENNSYLVANIA / Jan Baetens

A MODERNIST “ATTEMPT AT CINEMA”: THE “IMPURITY” OF PIERROT LE FOU / Peter Verstraten

MODERNISM AND THE ART OF PRINTING: TRANSITION AND CAROLUS VERHULST / Peter de Voogd

THE (POST)MODERN MUSIC OF EDGARD VARǓE / Marcel Cobussen

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-0995-2

OCLC:

868282565