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A Handbook of Modernism Studies
"A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration of the divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that are transforming our sense of how modernism was, is, and one day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level of engagement with modernist studies."—Maria DiBattista, Princeton University “Jean-Michel Rabaté’s expertly assembled Handbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literary texts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-date Continental theory. The 25 essays included here are as comprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated: studies making use of the New Marxisms, cognitive science, queer theory, phenomenology and Rancière’s “aesthetic regime” are ingeniously flanked, in Rabaté’s Introduction and the concluding essay by Jonathan Loesberg, by reconsiderations of Clement Greenberg’s formalism and its important version of Modernism as we now understand it.”—Marjorie Perloff
“This superb collection of new essays by leading figures in the field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet also excitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism in our time. Focusing on the productive tensions between art and theory as they informed the cultural movements of the period, A Handbook of Modernist Studies will prove indispensible for both experts and newcomers to the field.”—Sianne Ngai, Stanford University
Jean-Michel Rabaté (Author)
9780470658734, Wiley
Hardback, published 19 April 2013
480 pages
26.7 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.889 kg
“An invaluable resource for literary theorists and modernism scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (Choice, 1 December 2013)
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.
Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as ‘‘Theory’’ 15 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35 3 Modernisms High and Low 55 4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75 5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87 6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123 8 Reactionary Modernism 139 9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157 10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173 11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193 12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209 13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225 14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239 15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts 255 16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281 17 Glamour’s Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297 18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313 19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327 20 Queer Modernism 347 21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363 22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379 23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399 24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415 25 Rancière’s Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431 Index 445
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Peter Nicholls
Vicki Mahaffey
Eric Bulson
Vivian Liska
Jeremy Braddock
John Marx
Catherine Flynn
Robert L. Caserio
Matthew Hart
Shanyn Fiske
Christopher Bush
Steven G. Yao
Dirk Van Hulle
Laura Marcus
Maud Ellmann
Bill Brown
Judith Brown
Marian Eide
Sara Crangle
Benjamin Kahan
James F. English
Joseph Valente
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Jonathan Loesberg
Molly Anne Rothenberg
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
