Modernism Theory And Responsible Reading

Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350185821

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Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading by Stephen Ross Pdf

Introducing readers to a new theory of 'responsible reading', this book presents a range of perspectives on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory. Emerging from a collaborative process of comment and response, it promotes conversation among disparate views under a shared commitment to responsible reading practices. An international range of contributors question the interplay between modernism and theory today and provide new ways of understanding the relationship between the two, and the links to emerging concerns such as the Anthropocene, decolonization, the post-human, and eco-theory. Promoting responsible reading as a practice that reads generously and engages constructively, even where disagreement is inevitable, this book articulates a mode of ethical reading that is fundamental to ongoing debates about strength and weakness, paranoia and reparation, and critique and affect.

Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135266998

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Modernism and Theory by Stephen Ross Pdf

Modernism and Theory boldly asks what – if any – role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture. This collection examines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory. addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of ‘modernism’ and modernism as a literary category. considers intersections of modernism and theory within ethics, ecocriticism and the avant-garde. Concluding with an afterword from Fredric Jameson, the book makes use of an innovative dialogic format, offering a direct and engaging experience of the current debate in modernist studies. Contributors include: Charles F. Altieri, C.D. Blanton, Ian Buchanan, Pamela Caughie, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Thomas S. Davis, Oleg Gelikman, Jane Goldman, Ben Highmore, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Bonnie Kime Scott, Neil Levi, Anneleen Masschelein, Scott McCracken, Andrew John Miller, Stephen Ross, Roger Rothman, Morag Shiach, Susan Stanford Friedman, Allan Stoekl, Hilary Thompson and Glenn Willmott.

Author : Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350106267

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The New Modernist Studies Reader by Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers Pdf

Bringing together 20 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century. The New Modernist Studies Reader features chapters covering the major topics central to the study of modernism today, including: · Feminism, gender and sexuality · Empire and race · Print and media cultures · Historical and geographical debates Each text includes an introductory summary of its historical and intellectual contexts, as well as guides to further reading to help students and teachers explore the ideas further. Includes essential texts by leading critics such as: Pascale Casanova, Anne Anlin Cheng, Brent Hayes Edwards, Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman, Mark Goble, Miriam Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, David James, Fredric Jameson, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Mark S. Morrisson, Michael North, Jessica Pressman, Lawrence Rainey, Paul K. Saint-Amour, Bonnie Kime Scott, Urmila Seshagiri, Robert Spoo, and Rebecca Walkowitz.

Author : Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791492789

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Reading on the Edge by Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier Pdf

Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each author's work while at the same time redrawing modernism's traditionally Eurocentric disciplinary boundaries. The book therefore has wide implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.

Author : Astradur Eysteinsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501721304

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The Concept of Modernism by Astradur Eysteinsson Pdf

The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nontraditional literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism. Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism in a rich array of American, British, and European literature, criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms, detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our understanding of literature and literary history and influences our judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible "other" modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this provocative book.

Author : Sebnem Toplu,Şebnem Toplu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443823067

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Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism by Sebnem Toplu,Şebnem Toplu Pdf

Literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century were very much shaped by debates about modernism and postmodernism as labels for successive periods, but also for different competing interpretations of recent cultural history. In the twenty-first century, the shock waves that were sent through the global system on political, cultural, economic, and ecological levels by terrorist attacks, regional conflicts, poverty, the financial crisis and the threat of environmental disaster raise anew the question of how and to what extent the tradition of modernity can be newly defined in a situation where the problematic aspects of these ideas have rightly been exposed, but where they nevertheless appear to be crucial for any responsible assessment of contemporary world culture and its future perspectives. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the International Cultural Studies Symposium at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2009. Scholars from around the world have contributed to this volume reflecting the current perspective on modernism and postmodernism, shedding new light on literature, literary theory, philosophy, politics, religion, film and art. Providing an account of this field, this book enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing essays on transformations of modernism and postmodernism in the twenty-first century, and the debates beyond the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy.

Author : Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472529152

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Modernism: Evolution of an Idea by Sean Latham,Gayle Rogers Pdf

What exactly is “modernism”? And how and why has its definition changed over time? Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term “modernism” from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist studies. Rather than assuming and recounting the contributions of modernism's chief literary and artistic figures, this book focuses on critical formulations and reception through topics such as: - The evolution of “modernism” from a pejorative term in intellectual arguments, through its condemnation by Pope Pius X in 1907, and on to its subsequent centrality to definitions of new art by T. S. Eliot, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, F. R. Leavis, Edmund Wilson, and Clement Greenberg - New Criticism and its legacies in the formation of the modernist canon in anthologies, classrooms, and literary histories - The shifting conceptions of modernism during the rise of gender and race studies, French theory, Marxist criticism, postmodernism, and more - The New Modernist Studies and its contemporary engagements with the politics, institutions, and many cultures of modernism internationally With a glossary of key terms and movements and a capacious critical bibliography, this is an essential survey for students and scholars working in modernist studies at all levels.

Author : M. Halliwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230502734

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Modernism and Morality by M. Halliwell Pdf

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781939994196

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Postmodernism For Beginners by Jim Powell Pdf

If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.

Author : Douglas Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487061

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The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao Pdf

The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.

Author : Monique Chefdor,Ricardo Quinones,Albert Wachtel
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003266306

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Modernism by Monique Chefdor,Ricardo Quinones,Albert Wachtel Pdf

Author : P. Caughie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230274297

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Disciplining Modernism by P. Caughie Pdf

A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process.

Author : Geoffrey Thurley
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106006729534

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Counter-modernism in Current Critical Theory by Geoffrey Thurley Pdf

Author : Astradur Eysteinsson,Vivian Liska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027292049

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Modernism by Astradur Eysteinsson,Vivian Liska Pdf

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 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 these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art 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.

Author : Jason M. Baskin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108423397

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Modernism Beyond the Avant-Garde by Jason M. Baskin Pdf

Uses the idea of embodiment to reconceptualize postwar literary history and recognize the political significance of literary modernism after 1945.