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Published 2007.
Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism,
recent ...
Published 2007.
Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism,
recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. This book responds to a need for a collective and multifarious
view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical
questions, 63 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to
national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of the book is on literary modernism,
literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from interart conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban,
and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile ?all of which have an urgent
bearing on the poetics of modernity.
