The Knights Of Modernism

Author : Branko Vraneš
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783662619322

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The Knights of Modernism by Branko Vraneš Pdf

According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.

Author : Maria Margaroni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501362361

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Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism by Maria Margaroni Pdf

Julia Kristeva has revolutionized the study of modernism by developing a theoretical approach that is uniquely attuned to the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, linguistic and formal experimentation, and, on the other hand, subjective crisis and socio-political upheaval. Inspired by the contestatory spirit of the late 1960s in which she emerged as a theorist, Kristeva has defended the project of the European avant-gardes and has systematically attempted to reclaim their legacy in the new societal structures produced by a global, spectacle-dominated capitalism. Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism brings together essays that take up the threads in Kristeva's analyses of the avant-garde, offering an appreciation of her overall contribution, the intellectual and political horizon within which she has produced her seminal works as well as of the blind spots that need to be acknowledged in any contemporary examination of her insights. As with other volumes in this series, this volume is structured in three parts. The first part provides new readings of key texts or central aspects in Kristeva's oeuvre. The second part takes up the task of showing the impact of Kristeva's thought on the appreciation of modernist concerns and strategies in a variety of fields: literature, philosophy, the visual arts, and dance. The third part is a glossary of some of Kristeva's key terms, with each entry written by an expert contributor.

Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136515538

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Modernism, Gender, and Culture by Lisa Rado Pdf

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.

Author : Adam McKible
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136067860

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The Space and Place of Modernism by Adam McKible Pdf

This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313016578

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Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism by Paul Poplawski Pdf

Modernism is still widely acknowledged as perhaps the most important and influential artistic and cultural phenomenon of the 20th century. Written by expert scholars from around the world and covering hundreds of different topics in a clear, incisive, and critical manner, this reference maps the complex field of modernism in a fresh and original way. The principal focus of the book is on English-language literary modernism and the period 1890-1939, yet many entries extend beyond those parameters to include important precursors and successors of the movement. The book also covers the crucial European and interdisciplinary dimensions of modernism and provides complementary comparative perspectives from countries and regions not usually included in traditional accounts of the subject. Entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421426419

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In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak Pdf

Aiming to open an overdue debate about the academic fields of Russian and transnational modernist studies, this book is intended for an audience of scholars in comparative literary and cultural studies, specialists in Russian and transnational modernism, and researchers engaged with European cultural historiography.

Author : David A. Davis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496815446

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World War I and Southern Modernism by David A. Davis Pdf

When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall created an inherent tension between the region's existing agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization, leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures. Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern Renaissance. Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David A. Davis argues southern modernism was not a self-generating outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity generated in the region. In World War I and Southern Modernism, Davis examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat, and the developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the military and changing gender roles.

Author : Frederick J. Marker,Christopher Innes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802082068

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Modernism in European Drama by Frederick J. Marker,Christopher Innes Pdf

This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett.

Author : Peter Brooker,Andrew Thacker
Publisher : Oxford Critical Cultural Histo
Page : 1527 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199659586

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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines by Peter Brooker,Andrew Thacker Pdf

A study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly achievement of immense value to those interested in material culture of the 20th century.

Author : Robert Burden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317006497

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Travel, Modernism and Modernity by Robert Burden Pdf

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.

Author : Louise Blakeney Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139434690

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Modernism and the Ideology of History by Louise Blakeney Williams Pdf

Louise Williams explores the nature of historical memory in the work of five major Modernists: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. These Modernists, Williams argues, started their careers with historical assumptions derived from the nineteenth century. But their views on the universal structure of history, on the abandonment of progress and the adoption of a cyclical sense of the past, were the result of important conflicts and changes within the Modernist period. Williams focuses on the period immediately before World War I, and shows in detail how Modernism developed and why it is considered a unique intellectual movement. She also revisits the theory that the Edwardian age was a difficult period of transition to the modern world. Finally, she illuminates the contribution of non-Western culture to the literature and thought of the period. This wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study is essential reading for literary and cultural historians of the modernist period.

Author : James Edward Smethurst
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807834633

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The African American Roots of Modernism by James Edward Smethurst Pdf

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response fr

Author : S.J. Father Bampton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1913*
Category : History
ISBN : 9785873167708

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Modernism and modern thought by S.J. Father Bampton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317070122

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Re-Covering Modernism by Anonim Pdf

In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why modernist literature came to be viewed as the exclusive purview of a cultural elite given its availability in such popular forums. As he examines sensational and popular manifestations of modernism, as well as their reception by critics and readers, Earle provides a methodology for reconciling formerly separate or contradictory materialist, cultural, visual, and modernist approaches to avant-garde literature. Central to Earle's innovative approach is his consideration of the physical aspects of the books and magazines - covers, dust wrappers, illustrations, cost - which become texts in their own right. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Earle's study shows that modernism emerged in a publishing ecosystem that was both richer and more complex than has been previously documented.

Author : Ramsay Burt,Michael Huxley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429855948

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Dance, Modernism, and Modernity by Ramsay Burt,Michael Huxley Pdf

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H’Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers’ responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.