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Introduction: Transnational Modernism, Comparative Methodologies, and Theories of Time on the World Literary Stage

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Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpınar, Benjamin, Walser is about modernists from Turkish, French and German literary traditions, who were burdened by an extreme consciousness of time and who shared a common skepticism of modernity’s temporal ideology that valorizes newness, rupture, and linear teleological conception of time. The book explores the conceptualization of time in the early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history. These uneasy modern writers—Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Robert Walser—each from different linguistic, cultural and national backgrounds, provide a radical critique of time regimes, or chronometries, which calibrate time in singular temporal narratives. In this chapter, I show that the modernists in this study invite us to rethink time at a time of devastating transformation and war, and to consider temporal multiplicities in cultural periodicity and in political modernities. The chapter also provides an overview of the question of time in modernist literature and modernist studies. It finally introduces the questions of Eurochronology and periodization as they relate to the current debates in world literature.

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  1. 1.

    Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), 95.

  2. 2.

    For recent work on technology and modernist aesthetics, see David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, and Rebecca Roach, eds., Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714170.001.0001. On modernism and the literary market, see Rod Rosenquist, Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New (Cambridge University Press, 2009). On modernism and empire, see Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, Modernism and Empire: Writing and British Coloniality 1890–1940 (Manchester University Press, 2000); John Marx, The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Jon Hegglund, World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); and Saikat Majumdar, Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). On modernism and war, see Paul K. Saint-Amour, Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form (Oxford University Press, 2015).

  3. 3.

    David Carr, Time, Narrative, and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991); Enda Duffy, The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009); Mark Currie, About Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); Adam Barrows, The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Ricardo J. Quinones, Map** Literary Modernism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014); Randall Stevenson, Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

  4. 4.

    Paul Ricœur, Temps et Récit, 3 vols., L’Ordre Philosophique (Paris: Seuil, 1983).

  5. 5.

    Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, 35th Anniversary edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 365.

  6. 6.

    Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).

  7. 7.

    Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud: Poésies—Une saison en enfer—Illuminations (Paris: Folio, 1999).

  8. 8.

    See Paul Giles, Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830443.001.0001; Tyrus Miller, Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in Twentieth-Century Theory, Literature, and Art (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).

  9. 9.

    Krzysztof Pomian, L’ordre Du Temps, Bibliothèque Des Histoires (Paris: Gallimard, 1984); David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991); Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics, 2006 ed., (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2006); E. A. Grosz, The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); François Hartog, Régimes d’historicité: Présentisme et expériences du temps (Paris: Seuil, 2003). Also see Johannes Fabian’s seminal work on time in anthropology, Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), and Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space 1880–1918, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983); Peter Galison, Einstein’s Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003); Peter Osborne, The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (London; New York: Verso, 1995).

  10. 10.

    Ricœur, Temps et Récit; Georges Poulet, Études Sur Le Temps Humain, vol. 2, Agora 43 (Paris: Presses Pocket, 1990); Gilles Deleuze, Différence et répétition, 12. éd. (Paris: Presses Univ. de France, 2011).

  11. 11.

    Martin Hägglund, Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2012); Michael W. Clune, Writing against Time (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013).

  12. 12.

    See Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983). Also see Levenson Michael, “The Time-Mind of the Twenties,” in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls, eds. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  13. 13.

    Shannon Lee Dawdy, “Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity,” Current Anthropology 51, no. 6 (December 2010): 761–93, https://doi.org/10.1086/657626.

  14. 14.

    Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, ed. Christopher Prendergast, trans. Lydia Davis, (New York: Penguin, 2004), 8.

  15. 15.

    Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995), 47.

  16. 16.

    For transnational approaches initiated by the new modernist studies, see the September 2006 special issue of Modernism/modernity 13, no. 3 (2006) ‘Modernism and Transnationalisms.’

  17. 17.

    Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism, (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 45.

  18. 18.

    Christopher Prendergast, ed., Debating World Literature, (London; New York: Verso, 2004), 6; Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Public Worlds, v. 1 (Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 30.

  19. 19.

    Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 2007); Patrick Boucheron, Nicolas Delalande, and Cécile Rey, Histoire mondiale de la France, Ed. illustrée et augmentée (Paris: Seuil, 2018).

  20. 20.

    Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability, (London; New York: Verso, 2013).

  21. 21.

    For a compelling collection of essays that address this question, see Anthony L. Geist and José B. Monleón, eds., Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999). José Monleón, ed., Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America, 2133 (New York: Garland Publ., 1999).

  22. 22.

    See Laura Doyle and Laura A Winkiel, Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005); Susan Stanford Friedman, Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).

  23. 23.

    Susan Stanford Friedman, “Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies,” Modernism/Modernity 13, no. 3 (2006): 425–43. For a similar analysis of periodization of modernism, see Eric Hayot, “Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

  24. 24.

    See Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “13. Conclusion. Region, Nation, World,” 2022, https://doi.org/10.17885/HEIUP.607.C15143.

  25. 25.

    Aijaz Ahmad, “‘Show Me the Zulu Proust’: Some Thoughts on World Literture,” Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, no. 17 (2010): 11–45.

  26. 26.

    Aamir R. Mufti, Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literature (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016).

  27. 27.

    For an example of such study, see Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, ed., Alternative Modernities, 2nd edition (Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2001).

  28. 28.

    Simon Gikandi, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992); Roberto Schwarz, Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture, ed. John Gledson (London: Verso, 1992).

  29. 29.

    For new directions in comparative modernism studies, see Charles W. Pollard, New World Modernisms: T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004); Doyle and Winkiel, Geomodernisms; Mark A Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, “The New Modernist Studies,” PMLA 123, no. 3 (May 1, 2008): 737–48; Jessica Berman, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012); Harsha Ram, “The Scale of Global Modernisms: Imperial, National, Regional, Local,” PMLA 131, no. 5 (October 1, 2016): 1372–85, https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1372; Neal Alexander, Regional Modernisms (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013); and Sjef Houppermans et al., eds., Modernism Today (Leiden: Brill, 2013).

  30. 30.

    For a compelling critique of “alternative modernities,” particularly in the context of Turkey, see Arif Dirlik, “Twin Offspring of Empire, Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Neotraditionalism: Thoughts on Susan Buck-Morss’s ‘Democracy: An Unfinished Project,’” Boundary 2 42, no. 3 (August 1, 2015): 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2919459. Also see Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, (London: Verso, 2012).

  31. 31.

    Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 1.

  32. 32.

    Nergis Ertürk, Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey, (Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

  33. 33.

    Particularly in a case of comparison between Western and non-Western literary production, the Eastern influence is commonly categorized as intertextuality while a non-Western text is characterized as mimicry. We should also keep in mind that both notions of intertextuality and mimicry assume an awareness of anteriority and therefore a false prior.

  34. 34.

    Casanova, The World Republic of Letters.

  35. 35.

    Turkey was never directly colonized by the European powers. The process of Westernization and modernization started in the early nineteenth century with the Tanzimat (Reorganization) period. Therefore, post-colonial literary criticism does not provide adequate/sufficient tools for interpretation of the heterogeneous history of Turkish modernism. See Güven Güzeldere and Sibel Irzık, Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide, Vol 102 No 2/3 Spring/Summer 2003 edition (Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2003).

  36. 36.

    Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, ed. Edward W. Said, trans. Willard R. Trask, (Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013), 552.

  37. 37.

    In addition to the works mentioned in this section, see Maren Hartmann et al., Mediated Time: Perspectives on Time in a Digital Age (Springer Nature, 2019); Johan Fornäs, “The Mediatization of Third-Time Tools: Culturalizing and Historicizing Temporality,” International Journal of Communication, no. 10 (October 14, 2016): 20; and Peter Nagy, Joey Eschrich, and Ed Finn, “Time Hacking: How Technologies Mediate Time,” Information, Communication & Society 24, no. 15 (November 18, 2021): 2229–43, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1758743.

  38. 38.

    Bernard Stiegler, De la misère symbolique (Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2013).

  39. 39.

    Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep,(London: Verso, 2013), 45.

  40. 40.

    Crary, 54.

  41. 41.

    Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism, Reprint edition (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 3.

  42. 42.

    Nergis Ertürk, “Modernity and Its Fallen Languages: Tanpınar’s Hasret, Benjamin’s Melancholy,” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 123, no. 1 (2008): 41–56.

  43. 43.

    Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Reissue edition (New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1988).

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