Reseña del libro "A Handbook Of Modernism Studies"
The Fourth Volume In A New And Innovative Series Exploring Literature Through The Variegated Lenses Of Critical Theory, This Bold New Collection Of Essays Examines Canonical Modernist Texts By Making Sense Of The Conceptual, Philosophical, And Theoretical Issues That Underpin Them. Edited By A Renowned Commentator On Modernist Theory And Literature, The Book Features Contributions From Leading Academics Who Have Engaged In Detailed Analysis Both Of Individual Texts, And Their Links With Theory And Theoreticians. The Handbook Explores The Deep Affinity Of Leading Theorists For Specific Modernist Texts, Unravelling The Intellectual Links Between Adorno And Beckett, Derrida And Joyce, Foucault And Borges, And Žižek And Kafka, Among Others. It Also Attests To The Penchant Of Modernist Authors Such As Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot And Fernando Pessoa For Particular Aspects Of Philosophical And Theoretical Discourse. This Compelling Examination Of The Philosophical Confluence Between Modernism And Literature Will Attract Students And Scholars Not Just Of Literature, But In Many Other Disciplines. Notes On Contributors Vii Introduction 1Jean - Michel Rabat´E 1 Hard And Soft Modernism: Politics As Theory 15Peter Nicholls 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy In The Modernist Novel 35Vicki Mahaffey 3 Modernisms High And Low 55Eric Bulson 4 Kafka, Modernism, And Literary Theory 75Vivian Liska 5 Race: Tradition And Archive In The Harlem Renaissance 87Jeremy Braddock 6 Empire, Imperialism, And Modernism 107John Marx 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson To Benjamin 123Catherine Flynn 8 Reactionary Modernism 139Robert L. Caserio 9 Transnationalism At The Departure Gate 157Matthew Hart 10 From Ritual To The Archaic In Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, And The Persistence Of Myth 173Shanyn Fiske 11 Modernism, Orientalism, And East Asia 193Christopher Bush 12 Translation Studies And Modernism 209Steven G. Yao 13 Modernism, Mind, And Manuscripts 225Dirk Van Hulle 14 Modernism And Visual Culture 239Laura Marcus 15 More Kicks Than Pricks: Modernist Body - Parts 255Maud Ellmann 16 Materialities Of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281Bill Brown 17 Glamours Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, And Modernism 297Judith Brown 18 Otherness And Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313Marian Eide 19 Phenomenology And Affect: Modernist Sulking 327Sara Crangle 20 Queer Modernism 347Benjamin Kahan 21 Cultural Capital And The Revolutions Of Literary Modernity, From Bourdieu To Casanova 363James F. English 22 Modernism And Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379Joseph Valente 23 From Parody To The Event; From Affect To Freedom: Observations On The Feminine Sublime In Modernism 399Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 24 Aesthetic Formalism, The Form Of Artworks, And Formalist Criticism 415Jonathan Loesberg 25 Ranci`Eres Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, And The Logic Of Excess 431Molly Anne Rothenberg Index 445
