Indigenous Modernities: Afterword: Unsettling Modernist Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Ross
Keyword(s):  
Modernist Studies

With a Plural Vengeance: Modernism as (Flaming) Brand

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Michael Coyle
Keyword(s):  
Academic Institution ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Modernist Studies

In ‘With a Plural Vengeance: Modernism as (Flaming) Brand’, Michael Coyle examines the renaissance of modernism within the academic institution since the early 1990s, and the vigorous yet controversial re-branding through which this has in part been achieved. Defending this revisionary modernist studies, he argues that the issue for contemporary scholars is not primarily one of purging the elitism of a previously dominant ‘high modernist canon’, but of emphasising the pluralistic rather than singular criteria of canon-formation.

scholarly journals Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees: The liminal world of Paris in 1919

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Sofia Permiakova
Keyword(s):  
Original Publication ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Urban Representation ◽  
Modernist Studies ◽  
The City

Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees is a modernist ‘curiosity’ which remained largely unknown due to the peculiar conditions of its original publication. In recent years, however, it has regained its place within the field of modernist studies due to the efforts of Julia Briggs and Sandeep Parmar. Instead of approaching the poem through established categories of urban representation, such as flânerie, urban phantasmagoria or the urban palimpsest, this article focuses on Paris, then in the midst of the 1919 Peace Conference, as a liminal space and site of Bakhtinian carnival. This framework advances an understanding of the poem as a complete and complex work of art. The article argues that the peculiar structure and formal organization of the poem, and its relation to the reality of Paris in 1919 and beyond, turns the poem into a liminal space of its own, thus doubling the city it speaks of.

Dynamic Form

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara L. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Mina Loy ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modernist Studies ◽  
Verbal Category

This book traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and film, the book examines how these arts inflect narrative movement, contribute to plot events, and configure poetry and memoir. As forms and formal theories cross from one artistic realm to another and back again, modernism shows its obsession with form—and even at times becomes a formalism itself—but as the book states, that form is far more dynamic than we have given it credit for. Form fulfills such various functions that we cannot characterize it as a mere container for content or matter, nor can we consign it to ignominy opposite historicism or political commitment. As a structure or scheme that enables action, form in modernism can be plastic, protean, or even fragile, and works by Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Evelyn Waugh, and Gertrude Stein demonstrate the range of form's operations. Revising three major formal paradigms—spatial form, pure form, and formlessness—and recasting the history of modernist form, the book proposes an understanding of form as a verbal category, as a kind of doing. It thus opens new possibilities for conversation between modernist studies and formalist studies and simultaneously promotes a capacious rethinking of the convergence between literary modernism and creative work in other media.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Loukopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Modernist Studies

The introduction offers a brief outline of the key issues in Joyce scholarship. It analyses the methodological framework of the book. It draws largely on the methodological models of New Modernist Studies scholarship, which advocates a return to the historical contingencies of the literary marketplace and to the ways modernist literature was formed against specific socio-economic modes of production and circulation. The book argues that the issues of influence and publicity interventions are crucial and that the examination of modernist networks of promotion and their publication outlets including magazines should not be segregated from the wider study of the public sphere.

André Gide Among the Parisian Ghosts in the “Anglo-Irish”

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Angela Moorjani
Keyword(s):  
Andre Gide ◽  
The Real ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Modernist Studies ◽  
André Gide ◽  
The Ideal

In concert with the recent transnational turn in modernist studies, this essay surveys the Parisian intellectual and literary trends echoed in Beckett's “Anglo-Irish” fiction of the thirties. Probed in particular are the extensive role André Gide played in shaping Beckett's views and practice of the modern novel and the tension between the real and the “ideal real” in the two writers' work. What would Gide's stature be in Beckett studies, one wonders, if Beckett had completed the monograph he planned to write on Gide as he had on Proust?

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