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Portable Modernisms

Emily Ridge
Portable Modernisms Book PDF

Author : Emily Ridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474419611

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Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

Portable Modernisms

Emily Ridge
Portable Modernisms Book PDF

Author : Emily Ridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474419604

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Portable Modernisms by Emily Ridge Pdf

Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Jesse Schotter
Hieroglyphic Modernisms Book PDF

Author : Jesse Schotter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474424790

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Hieroglyphic Modernisms by Jesse Schotter Pdf

Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall

Cross-Channel Modernisms

Davison Claire Davison
Cross Channel Modernisms Book PDF

Author : Davison Claire Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474441902

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Cross-Channel Modernisms by Davison Claire Davison Pdf

Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond Offers cutting-edge explorations of different aspects of artistic exchange between Britain and France, written by experts on both sides of the ChannelProvides original close readings of canonical and marginalised modernist textsOpens up new conceptual paradigms by probing multiple meanings related to 'crossing' and 'channelling' modernismOrganises chapters around three key themes of 'translating', 'fashioning', 'mediating' that intervene in the new modernist studiesDescribed by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms 'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchangesa ina Britain, France and beyond and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of 'crossings' and 'channels' through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent,a internationala context.

Primordial Modernism

Cathryn Setz
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Author : Cathryn Setz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748692187

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Primordial Modernism by Cathryn Setz Pdf

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine culture Tests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught nationalismsProvides readings of Eugene Jolas's creative and critical works that place him centre-stage in modernist studiesMoves between unpublished archival material, reception studies, and readings of overlooked authorsConsiders a wide range of modernist authors and artists as befitting to such a rich documentTouches on contemporary scientific discourse as an aspect of animal studiesThis adventurous study focuses on experimental animal writing in the major interwar journal transition (1927-1938), which contains a striking recurrence of metaphors around the most basic forms of life. Amoebas, fish, lizards, birds - some of the 'lowest' and 'oldest' creatures on earth often emerge at the very places authors seek expressions for the 'newest' and the 'highest' in art. Discussing works by James Joyce, Henry Miller, Gottfried Benn, Eugene Jolas, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Paul luard and more, Cathryn Setz investigates this paradox and provides a new understanding of transition's contribution to twentieth-century periodical culture.

Modernism Edited

Victoria Bazin
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Author : Victoria Bazin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417310

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Modernism Edited by Victoria Bazin Pdf

As editor of the "Dial," Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazines have largely overlooked her editorial influence. This book makes visible Moore's contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency. It explores the public face of the modernist editor, the image of highbrow distinction circulated by the "Dial" and embodied by the figure of "Miss Moore." It also examines Moore's editorial practice as a form of modernist "contractility" drawing on her own poetics to understand more fully the motives underpinning her revisions. it returns to the well-known case of Moore's radical cuts to Hart Crane's poem "The WIne Menagerie" as well as instances of collaborative struggle with William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, and D.H. Lawrence. In doing so, the book conceptualizes editorial labor as a form of creative and critical social practice

Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity

Jeff Wallace
Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity Book PDF

Author : Jeff Wallace
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474461672

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Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity by Jeff Wallace Pdf

Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx

Modernism and Still Life

Tobin Claudia Tobin
Modernism and Still Life Book PDF

Author : Tobin Claudia Tobin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474455152

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Modernism and Still Life by Tobin Claudia Tobin Pdf

Explores the 'still life spirit' in modern painting, prose, dance, sculpture and poetryChallenges the conventional positioning of still life a 'minor' genre in art historyProposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual cultureProvides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and danceUncovers connections and cultural exchange between networks of European and American artists including the Bloomsbury Group and Wallace StevensThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Czanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson, Wallace Stevens, and lesser-known figures including Charles Mauron and Margaret Morris. Claudia Tobin reveals that at the heart of modern art were forms of stillness that were intimately bound up with movement: the still life emerges charged with animation, vibration and rhythm; an unstable medium, unexpectedly vital and well suited to the expression of modern concerns.

Modernism, Space and the City

Andrew Thacker
Modernism Space and the City Book PDF

Author : Andrew Thacker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 9780748633494

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Modernism, Space and the City by Andrew Thacker Pdf

This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

Women Making Modernism

Erica Gene Delsandro
Women Making Modernism Book PDF

Author : Erica Gene Delsandro
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813057309

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Women Making Modernism by Erica Gene Delsandro Pdf

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers. The essays in this volume highlight both familiar and lesser-known writers including Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Emma Goldman, May Sinclair, and Mary Hutchinson. For these writers, relationships and correspondences with other women were key to navigating a literary culture that not only privileged male voices but also reserved most financial and educational opportunities for men. Their examples show how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement. Contributors to this volume argue that the movement’s prominent intellectual networks were dependent on the invisible work of women artists, a fact that the field of modernist studies has too long overlooked. Amplifying the reality of women’s contributions to modernism, this volume advocates for an “orientation of openness” in reading and teaching literature from the period, helping to ease the tensions between feminist and modernist studies.

Modernism and Time Machines

Tung Charles M. Tung
Modernism and Time Machines Book PDF

Author : Tung Charles M. Tung
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781474431361

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Modernism and Time Machines by Tung Charles M. Tung Pdf

Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the shapes of time, the consistency of timespace and the nature of history.Key FeaturesDraws on insights from a range of sources, including critical geography, postcolonial theory, science and technology studies, and time studiesExamines different kinds of objects together: SF, Impressionism, and Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis; evolutionary biology, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Leinster's "e;Sidewise in Time"e;; Woolf, Philip K. Dick's alternate history, and the film Interstellar; bullet time, Faulkner's racialized lag, and Jessica Hagedorn's postcolonial anachronism; "e;big history,"e; Olaf Stapledon's two-billion-year novel of the human species, and Terrence Malick's film Tree of Life

Modernist Exoskeleton

Rachel Murray
Modernist Exoskeleton Book PDF

Author : Rachel Murray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474458214

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Modernist Exoskeleton by Rachel Murray Pdf

"Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body - its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations."--

Cheap Modernism

Lise Jaillant
Cheap Modernism Book PDF

Author : Lise Jaillant
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417259

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Cheap Modernism by Lise Jaillant Pdf

We often think of Mrs Dalloway or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as difficult books, originally published in small print runs for a handful of readers. But from the mid-1920s, these texts and others were available in cheap format across Europe. Uniform series of reprints such as the Travellers' Library, the Phoenix Library, Tauchnitz and Albatross sold modernism to a wide audience - thus transforming a little-read "e;highbrow"e; movement into a popular phenomenon. The expansion of the readership for modernism was not only vertical (from "e;high"e; to "e;low"e;) but also spatial - since publisher's series were distributed within and outside metropolitan centres in Britain, continental Europe and elsewhere. Many non-English native speakers discovered texts by Joyce, Woolf and others in the original language - a fact that has rarely been mentioned in histories of modernism. Drawing on extensive work in neglected archives, Cheap Modernism will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit.

Modernist Life Histories

Daniel Aureliano Newman
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Author : Daniel Aureliano Newman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474439633

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Modernist Life Histories by Daniel Aureliano Newman Pdf

Modernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century.

Bungalow Modernity

Mary Lou Emery
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Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680255

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Bungalow Modernity by Mary Lou Emery Pdf

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.