Modernist work : labor, aesthetics, and the work of art / edited by John Attridge and Helen Rydstrand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Attridge, John, 1976- editor.

Rydstrand, Helen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Music).

Film criticism.

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Labor, aesthetics, and the work of art

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic / Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.

Summary:

"Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its historical, political, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE WORK OF ART

ch. 1 The Absolute And The Impossible Work: Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" / Robert Buch

ch. 2 Autonomy, Difficulty, And The Work Of Literature In Wyndham Lewis's Tarr And Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters / Emmett Stinson

ch. 3 Mimesis And The Task Of The Writer For Lawrence Andwoolf / Helen Rydstrand

pt. II ARTISTIC LABOR

ch. 4 Richard Strauss At Work In His Works / David Larkin

ch. 5 Stein's Immaterial Labors / Kristin Grogan

ch. 6 Trace And Facture: Legacies Of The "Ready-Made" In Contemporary South African Art / Alison Kearney

pt. III REPRESENTING WORK AND WORKERS

ch. 7 Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: Work, Inheritance, And Desert In The Modernist Novel / Evelyn T.Y. Chan

ch. 8 Magic, Modernity, And Women At Work / Caroline Webb

ch. 9 The Disclosure Of Work In The Poetry Of Ron Silliman / Christopher Oakey

pt. IV CLASS IDENTITY AND CLASS CONFLICT

ch. 10 Swedish Social Modernism: The Inward And Outward Turn In Eyvind Johnson's Stadiljus / Niklas Salmose

ch. 11 Percussion And Repercussion: The Haitian Revolution As Worker Uprising In Guy Endore's Babouk (1934) And C. L. R. James's Black Jacobins (1938) / Sascha Morrell

ch. 12 Domestic Holocaust: Michael Haneke's Intractable Class War / Paul Sheehan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Modernist work

ISBN:

9781501344015

1501344013

OCLC:

1055264002

Publisher Number:

99983674551

40029229891