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Author | : Caitlin Vandertop |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108875785 |
While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers the place of the colonial city in modernist fiction. From the streets of Dublin to the shop-houses of Singapore, and from the botanical gardens of Bombay to the suburbs of Suva, the monumental landscapes of British colonial cities aimed to reinforce empire's universalising claims, yet these spaces also contradicted and resisted the impositions of an idealised English culture. Inspired by the uneven landscapes of the urban British empire, a group of twentieth-century writers transformed the visual incongruities and anachronisms on display in the city streets into sources of critique and formal innovation. Showing how these writers responded to empire's metrocolonial complexities and built legacies, Modernism in the Metrocolony traces an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
Author | : Geneva M. Gano |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474439772 |
This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
Author | : Geneva Gano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Artist colonies |
ISBN | : 9781474490955 |
This title historicises and theorises the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
Author | : Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-10-12 |
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ISBN | : 3111006174 |
Author | : John Parham |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843846977 |
Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.Much as the complexities of climate change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions of literary representation, so, too, have the challenges recently presented by climate activism and intersectional environmentalism, animal rights, and even the power of material forms, such as oil, plastic, and heavy metals. Social and protest movements have revived the question of whether there can be such a thing as an activist ecocriticism: can such an approach only concern itself with consciousness, or might it politicise literary criticism in a new way? Attempting to respond, this volume coalesces around three interrelated strands: material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing itself. Contributors consider the ways in which literary form has foregrounded the complexities of both matter (in essays on water, sugar, and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so? and land) and political economics (from empire and nationalism to environmental justice movements and local and regional communities). The volume asks how life writing, nature writing, creative nonfiction, and autobiography - although genres entrenched in capitalist political realities - can also confront these by reinserting personal experience. Can we bring a more sustainable planet into being by focusing on those literary forms which have the ability to imagine the conditions and systems needed to do so?o?
Author | : JOSHUA. ABBOTT |
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Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781783528561 |
Author | : Peter Brooker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134329105 |
One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the Orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research that ranges across the field of modernism. It also serves to identify the many exciting new directions that future studies may take. With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, Geographies of Modernism is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.
Author | : Robin Walz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2013-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317860934 |
Robin Walz’s updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning to, or studying the topic for the first time. The twentieth century was a period of seismic change on a global scale, witnessing two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the establishment of a global economy, the beginnings of global warming and a complete reversal in the status of women in large parts of the world. The modernist movements of the early twentieth century launched a cultural revolution without which the multi-media-driven world in which we live today would not have been possible. Today modernism is enshrined in art galleries and university courses. Its techniques of abstraction and montage, and its creative impulse to innovate and shock, are the stock-in-trade of commercial advertising, feature films, television and computer-generated graphics. In this concise cultural history, Robin Walz vividly recaptures what was revolutionary about modernism. He shows how an aesthetic concept, arising from a diversity of cultural movements, from Cubism and Bauhaus to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and operating in different ways across the fields of art, literature, music, design and architecture, came to turn intellectual and cultural life and assumptions upside down, first in Europe and then around the world. From the nineteenth century origins of modernism to its postmodern legacies, this book will give the reader access to the big picture of modernism as a dynamic historical process and an unfinished project which still speaks to our times.
Author | : Jason M. Baskin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108423396 |
Uses the idea of embodiment to reconceptualize postwar literary history and recognize the political significance of literary modernism after 1945.
Author | : Andrew Thacker |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-01-22 |
Genre | : Berlin (Germany) |
ISBN | : 0748633499 |
This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.