Modernism Revisited : Texts and Contexts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chakraborty, Amitayu, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Content

Introduction

Chapter 1: Realism versus Modernism

The Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Context of Modernism

Realism versus Modernism

Chapter 2: "The Unseen Parts that Spread Wide" : Mrs. Dalloway and the Schizo-Rhizome

Rhizomes in Mrs. Dalloway-"Schizo-Rhizomatic" Characters

The Rhizome of Mrs. Dalloway-the "Schizo-Rhizomatic" Text

Chapter 3: Uncanny Embodiment and History on the Late Modernist Stage

Brecht, Artaud, and Modernist Theatrical Embodiment

The Plurality of Embodiment and Choral Corporeality

Uncanny Embodiment as Alternative History

Chapter 4: The Unfinished Resistance of Moving Texts: Resonance and Witness in the Works of Martha Graham and Muriel Rukeyser

Acknowledgments

Who Are These Women Artists?

The Artist as Activist: Amplifying the Poet's Voice

Resistance and the Body-Mind

A Broadly Gifted Writer

The Enlivened Landscape as a Modernist Construct

Reinterpreting Graham's Ballets as Moving Texts

Sound and the Moving Image

Modernism Develops in the Post-Second World War Era

Poetry as Music and Dance: The Poem Moves out of an Inner Voice

Personal Responses to Martha Graham's Work

Unfinished Resistance

Chapter 5: Myth in Modernism: Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, and Pound

Chapter 6: Occult Modernism: Aesthetic of the Esoteric

Influence of the Occult

Writing the Occult

Chapter 7: Silence and Empowering: The Gendered Narrative of Modernism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Chapter 8: Women, War, and the Poetics of Grief

Chapter 9: "How Will You Furnish It?": Domestic Labor and Modernist Women's Writing in Interwar Britain

Chapter 10: Time and "Music" in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and The Four Quartets

The Waste Land

Four Quartets.

"Tradition and Individual Talent"

Eliot and Popular Culture

Chapter 11: "Now Is the Moment": Writing To Be in The Waves

Chapter 12: "This impersonal thing, which I'm dared to do by my friends, the flight of time": The Temporal Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Public Time, Bergsonism, and the Philosopher's Influence on Woolfian Modernism

"The Window" and the Sea: Close Encounters with Nonhuman Time

"But what after all is one night?": Time Passes

"The Lighthouse": Returning, Remembering, Returning

Chapter 13: Letters from Loiterers: Modernism and the City

The Logic of the City

The Philosophy of Scripting the City: Baudelaire and Benjamin

Against Loneliness: Heidegger's Critique of City life

Chapter 14: The Multilingual Waste Land

Recent Criticism

Bakhtin and Linguistic Theory

Discussion

Chapter 15: Modernism and the Crisis of Language: An Introduction through Later Joyce

Chapter 16: Where and for Whom is "Europe" in the Context of Transnational Modernist Studies?: A Glance at Estonian Writer Leida Kibuvits

North and South, East and West, and Everything between: A Move toward the Particular

Estonian (Literary) History and Kibuvits' Reception in Literary Studies

Acknowledgment

Chapter 17: Interrogating Modernity and Modernism through Tagore's Poetics

Chapter 18: The Drifters: The Emergence of the "Modern" Characters in Bengal

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

About the Editor

About the Contributors.

ISBN:

979-88-8189-082-7

979-82-16-26747-8

1-9787-6378-6

9781978763784

OCLC:

1564375480