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Modernist Cultural Studies

Catherine Driscoll
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Author : Catherine Driscoll
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813043203

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For many scholars, cultural studies is viewed as a product of postmodern criticism and as the antithesis of modernism. In this brilliant work, Catherine Driscoll argues persuasively that we must view what we call cultural studies as a direct continuation of the innovations and concerns of modernism and the modernists. In making her case, Driscoll provides a fresh take on arguments--some seemingly unresolvable--that pivot on modernism's desire for novelty. Defining modernity as a critical attitude rather than a time period, she describes the many things these ostensibly different fields of inquiry have in common and reveals why cultural studies must be viewed as a fundamentally modernist project. Casting a wide net across the shared interests of modernism and cultural studies, including cinema, fiction, fashion, art, and popular music, Driscoll explores such themes as love and work, adolescence and everyday life, the significance of the everyday, the popular as a field of power, and the importance of representation to identity and experience in modernity.

Modernism, Gender, and Culture

Lisa Rado
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Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136515606

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Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how that culture was affected by gender issues. The essays provide a wealth of insights into literature, painting, architecture, design, anthropology, sociology, religion, science, popular culture, music, issues of race and ethnicity, and the influence of 20th-century women and sexual politics.

Modernism and Food Studies

Jessica Martell,Adam Fajardo,Philip Keel Geheber
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Author : Jessica Martell,Adam Fajardo,Philip Keel Geheber
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813052496

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Modernism and Food Studies by Jessica Martell,Adam Fajardo,Philip Keel Geheber Pdf

Transnational in scope, this much-needed volume explores how modernist writers and artists address and critique the dramatic changes to food systems that took place in the early twentieth century. During this period, small farms were being replaced with industrial agriculture, political upheavals exacerbated food scarcity in many countries, and globalization opened up new modes of distributing culinary commodities. Looking at a unique variety of art forms by authors, painters, filmmakers, and chefs from Ireland, Italy, France, the United States, India, the former Soviet Union, and New Zealand, contributors draw attention to modernist representations of food, from production to distribution and consumption. They consider Oscar Wilde’s aestheticization of food, Katherine Mansfield’s use of eggs as a feminist symbol, Langston Hughes’s use of chocolate as a redemptive metaphor for blackness, hospitality in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Ernest Hemingway’s struggles with gender and sexuality as expressed through food and culinary objects, Futurist cuisine, avant-garde cookbooks, and the impact of national famines on the work of James Joyce, Viktor Shklovsky, and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay. Less celebrated topics of putrefaction and waste are analyzed in discussions of food as both a technology of control and a tool for resistance. The diverse themes and methodologies assembled here underscore the importance of food studies not only for the literary and visual arts but also for social transformation. The cultural work around food, the editors argue, determines what is produced, who has access to it, and what can or will change. A milestone volume, this collection uncovers new links between seemingly disparate spaces, cultures, and artistic media and demystifies the connection between modernist aesthetics and the emerging food cultures of a globalizing world. Contributors: Giles Whiteley | Aimee Gasston | Randall Wilhelm | Bradford Taylor | Sean Mark | Céline Mansanti | Shannon Finck

Modernism Relocated

John C. Welchman
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Author : John C. Welchman
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1863735828

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Illustrated collection of interrelated essays which re-examine the history and theory of visual cultures in the 20th century. Addressing European Dada and Surrealism, US Conceptual Art and post-modern photographs, Australian performance and Aboriginal representation, the author argues for a new understanding of the relationships between visuality and textuality, 'central' and minority practices, modernism and post-modernism. Includes an index. The author is currently a visiting professor in the department of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He is co-author of 'The Dada and Surrealist Word-Image' and editor of 'Rethinking Borders' (forthcoming).

Modernist Objects

Xavier Kalck
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Author : Xavier Kalck
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979510

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Modernist Objects: Literature, Art, Culture is a unique mix of cultural studies, literature, and visual arts applied to the discrete materiality of modernist objects. Contributors explore the many tensions surrounding the modernist relationship to objects, things, products and artefacts through the prism of poetry, prose, visual arts, culture and crafts.

Modernist Women and Visual Cultures

Maggie Humm
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Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813532663

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This volume takes some of the visual aspects of modernism - photo albums and image-texts - and examines the ways in which modernist women explore a freer range of aesthetics in their work.

Composing Cultures

Eric Aronoff
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Author : Eric Aronoff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813934853

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The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable. The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue about value, meaning, and form among social critics, artists, anthropologists, and literary critics, including figures as diverse as Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, Willa Cather, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ransom, Raymond Weaver, and Allen Tate. These figures proposed new ways to conceive of culture that intertwined theories of aesthetic and literary value with theories of national, racial, and regional identity. Through close readings, Aronoff shows that disciplines and approaches that are often thought of as opposed—cultural anthropology and aesthetics, American literary history and literary criticism, and multiculturalism and regionalism—are in fact engaged in common debate and proceed from shared arguments about culture and form.

Modernist Objects

Noëlle Cuny,Xavier Kalck
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Author : Noëlle Cuny,Xavier Kalck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 1800341474

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'Modernist Objects' is a unique mix of cultural studies, literature, and visual arts applied to the discrete materiality of objects. It places objects, how they emerge or withdraw, how they fashion us, and what status they hold, at the heart of what constitutes modernism.

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Rajeev S. Patke
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Author : Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748682607

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Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studiesNeither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. This book interprets modernity as an asymmetrically global phenomenon complexly connected to the course of Western imperialism, and demonstrates how the impact of Western modernism produced new developments in writing from all the former colonies of Europe and the US. These developments constitute the afterlife of Western modernism.The various ways in which the aesthetic ideologies and writing strategies of Western modernism have been adapted, transposed and modified by some of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century is demonstrated in the book through a set of case studies, each of which juxtaposes a canonical modernist text with a postcolonial text that shows how modernist modes metamorphosed in interaction with the turbulent and volatile realities of colonies and new nations struggling to arrive at a modernity of their own in contexts marked by colonial histories. Thus Kafka's allegories are juxtaposed with the use of allegory in writers like Salman Rushdie and J.M.Coetzee; the gendered modernity of Virginia Woolf is juxtaposed with the disturbing and powerful fictions of writers such as Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield; the intellectualized and urbanized spirituality of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is re-read in the revisionist contexts created by the brilliant and troubled urban spirituality of writers such as Arun Kolatkar from India and a text such as The Woman Who Had Two Navels, from the Philippines.

The Death of the Book

John Lurz
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Author : John Lurz
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823270996

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An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the book, The Death of the Book considers how bookish format plays a role in some of the twentieth century’s most famous literary experiments. Tracking the passing of time in which reading unfolds, these novels position the book’s so-called death in terms that refer as much to a simple description of its future vis-à-vis other media forms as to the sense of finitude these books share with and transmit to their readers. As he interrogates the affective, physical, and temporal valences of literature’s own traditional format and mode of access, John Lurz shows how these novels stage intersections with the phenomenal world of their readers and develop a conception of literary experience not accounted for by either rigorously historicist or traditionally formalist accounts of the modernist period. Bringing together issues of media and mediation, book history, and modernist aesthetics, The Death of the Book offers a new and deeper understanding of the way we read now.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Sebnem Toplu,Şebnem Toplu
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Author : Sebnem Toplu,Şebnem Toplu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443823067

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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.

Interventions into Modernist Cultures

Amie Elizabeth Parry
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Author : Amie Elizabeth Parry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822389866

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Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends that the radically fragmented form of modernist poetic texts is particularly well suited to representing U.S. imperialism and neocolonial modernities. Reading various works by U.S. expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, Parry compares the cultural politics of U.S. canonical modernism with alternative representations of temporality, hybridity, erasure, and sexuality in the work of the Taiwanese writers Yü Kwang-chung and Hsia Yü and the Asian American immigrant author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Juxtaposing poems by Pound and Yü Kwang-chung, Parry shows how Yü’s fragmented, ambivalent modernist form reveals the effects of neocolonialism while Pound denies and obscures U.S. imperialism in Asia, asserting a form of nondevelopmental universalism through both form and theme. Stein appropriates discourses of American modernity and identity to represent nonnormative desire and sexuality, and Parry contrasts this tendency with representations of sexuality in the contemporary experimental poetry of Hsia Yü. Finally, Parry highlights the different uses of modernist forms by Pound in his Cantos—which incorporate a multiplicity of decontextualized and ahistorical voices—and by Cha in her 1982 novel Dictee, a historicized, multilingual work. Parry’s sophisticated readings provide a useful critical framework for apprehending how “minor modernisms” illuminate the histories erased by certain canonical modernist texts.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Butler
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Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192804419

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A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print

Bartholomew Brinkman
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Author : Bartholomew Brinkman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781421421346

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Coda: Remaking Poetic Modernism after a Culture of Mass Print -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

A Shrinking Island

Joshua Esty
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Author : Joshua Esty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400825745

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This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.