Modernism

The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! 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. These volumes respond 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, 65 scholars from several countries test the.  Read more...
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Introduction --
1. De-limiting Modernism --
2. Reassessments --
3. Tradition, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism --
4. Time and Space --
5. Mind and Body --
6. Technology and Science --
7. Literature and the Other Arts --
8. Social and Political Parameters --
9. Cultural Conjunctions --
10. Routes and Encounters --
11. Locations: Case Studies --
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The series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages.