Historical Modernisms

Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics

Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté, Angeliki Spiropoulou (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20296-2 (ISBN)

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Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of modernism and the artistic avant-gardes.
Cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions and featuring work from a variety of eminent scholars, it deals with issues as diverse as artistic medium, modernist print culture, autobiography as history writing, avant-garde experimentations and modernism’s futurity.
Contributors examine both literary and artistic modernism, combining theoretical overviews and archival research with case studies of Anglophone as well as European modernism, which speak to the current historicizing trend in modernist and literary studies.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org), he is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté has authored or edited 38 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce. Angeliki Spiropoulou is Associate Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at Peloponnese University, and Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She works on English and European modernism. She has authored or (co-)edited the books: Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin; History of European Literature 18th-20thC.; Culture Agonistes; and Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity.

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Preface
Foreword: Modernism, time and history - Terry Eagleton
Historical modernisms: Introduction - Jean-Michel Rabaté and Angeliki Spiropoulou

Part I Historicizing modernism
1 ‘The Last Witnesses’: Autobiography and history in the 1930s - Laura Marcus
2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms - Andrew Thacker
3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed - Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni
4 ‘Well now that’s done: And I’m glad it’s over’: Modernism, history and the future - Max Saunders
5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White - Angeliki Spiropoulou

Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes

6 Medium-New - Tyrus Miller
7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes - Sascha Bru
8 Clement Greenberg’s modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? - Rahma Khazam
9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic - Alexandra Bickley Trott
10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau - Rachel Silveri
11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle’s transforming praxis - Sanja Bahun

Bibliography 234
Index 253

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Historicizing Modernism
Zusatzinfo	25 b/w illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-20296-7 / 1350202967
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20296-2 / 9781350202962
Zustand	Neuware