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Modernism and Posthumanism
This chapter makes the case for the importance of the early twentieth century in the emergence of posthumanism. Beginning by tracing two of the...
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Brazilian Modernists and the Avant-Garde: Transcultural Modernism in the Postcolonial Periphery
This essay traces the reception of and reaction to mainstream European Avant-Garde Cubism and Futurism in Brazil, which coincided with the emergence...
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Modernism and Posthumanism
This chapter makes the case for the importance of the early twentieth century in the emergence of posthumanism. Beginning by tracing two of the...
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A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity
Starting from a poignant survey of the most important recent critical reappraisals of Modernism which broadened its formation and its temporalities...
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Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tretyakov)
The essay explores the extent to which geographical location and imagination might shape notions of peripheral modernism. It takes as its examples...
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The “Persistent Rebels” of Maternal Modernism
Asking “What Does Motherhood Mean?” in a 1928 article for the Manchester Guardian, British author Vera Brittain observes, “Motherhood of late years...
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The First Portuguese Modernism and the First Avant-Garde
With the publication of the Lisbon-based magazine Orpheu, the year 1915 unquestionably marks the beginning of the first modernism in Portugal, driven...
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Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism
Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernismlooks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the...
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Re-targeting Modernism
This conclusion calls for further research into how modernism’s intermediaries target audiences in ways that affect its changing social positionings,...
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Maternal Modernism Narrating New Mothers
Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècleNew Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative,...
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Introduction: Transnational Modernism, Comparative Methodologies, and Theories of Time on the World Literary Stage
Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpınar, Benjamin, Walser is about modernists from Turkish, French and German literary traditions, who were...
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Mathematics and Modernism
This chapter focuses on developments in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mathematics, their reverberations in philosophy, and the...
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A Theological History of Modernism
This chapter uncovers and interrogates the forgotten theological roots of the term ‘modernism’. It foregrounds the tensions present in the religious...
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The Second Portuguese Modernism and the Generation of 1927 : Some Open-Ended Reflections
This final chapter focuses on the relationships between the authors of the Generation of ’27 and those of the second Portuguese modernism, bringing...
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Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable...
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Communal Pleasure in Jean Rhys’s Fiction
Laura Frost’s The problem with pleasure: Modernism and its discontents has blazed a new trail and annexed the concept of pleasure to the notion of...
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Letteracettera: Experimental List-Making in the Age of Modernism
To a surprising extent, literary list-making in the modern era was a reaction to linguistic scepticism. Doubtful of the representational qualities of...
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Che Dan 扯蛋: The Bathos of High Literary Modernism—Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged and Performances of Literary Joking
The chapter examines Qian Zhongshu’s 1947 comic novel Fortress Besieged (Wei Cheng [《围城》]) in relation to European modernism as it arose in the early...
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Uneasy Modernism
Chapter 1 outlines the distinctive features of European modernism. The first feature of common culture in modernism is its drive toward simplicity....