Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa INDICE: Notes on Contributors vii .Introduction 1Jean–Michel Rabaté .1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as Theory 15Peter Nicholls .2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35Vicki Mahaffey .3 Modernisms High and Low 55Eric Bulson .4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75Vivian Liska .5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87Jeremy Braddock .6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107John Marx .7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123Catherine Flynn .8 Reactionary Modernism 139Robert L. Caserio .9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157Matthew Hart .10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173Shanyn Fiske .11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193Christopher Bush .12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209Steven G. Yao .13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225Dirk Van Hulle .14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239Laura Marcus .15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body–Parts 255Maud Ellmann .16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281Bill Brown .17 Glamour s Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297Judith Brown .18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313Marian Eide .19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327Sara Crangle .20 Queer Modernism 347Benjamin Kahan .21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363James F. English .22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379Joseph Valente .23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399Ewa Plonowska Ziarek .24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415Jonathan Loesberg .25 Rancière s Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431Molly Anne Rothenberg .Index 445
- ISBN: 978-1-119-12140-4
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 11/12/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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