Modernism Today: 72 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 72) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 904203744X ISBN 13: 9789042037441

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2013

Synopsis

This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as “middlebrow”, “arrière-garde”, and to some extent even “avant-garde”, were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 904203744X
• ISBN 13: 9789042037441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Houppermans Sjef, Liebregts Peter, Baetens Jan, Boele Otto