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Title A new vocabulary for global modernism / edited by Eric Hayot and Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Modernist latitudes
Modernist latitudes.
Contents Introduction / Eric Hayot and Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Alienation / Christopher Reed -- Animal / Efthymia Rentzou -- Antiquity / David Damrosch -- Classic / Tsitsi Jaji -- Context / Christopher Bush -- Copy / Jacob Edmond -- Form / Jahan Ramazani -- Libraries / B. Venkat Mani -- Obsolescence / Mark Goble -- Pantomime / Monica L. Miller -- Puppets / Martin Puchner -- Slum / David Pike -- Style / Judith Brown -- Tradition / Rachel Adams -- Translation / Gayle Rogers -- War / Mariano Siskind
Summary Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has often been tied to older conceptual frameworks that make it difficult to think of modernism globally. Providing alternative approaches, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism introduces pathways through global archives and new frameworks that offer a richer, more representative set of concepts for the analysis of literary and cultural works. In separate essays each inspired by a critical term, this collection explores what happens to the foundational concepts of modernism and the methods we bring to modernist studies when we approach the field as a global phenomenon. Their work transforms the intellectual paradigms we have long associated with modernism, such as tradition, antiquity, style, and translation. New paradigms, such as context, slum, copy, pantomime, and puppets emerge as the archive extends beyond its European center. In bringing together and reexamining the familiar as well as the emergent, the contributors to this volume offer an invaluable and original approach to studying the intersection of world literature and modernist studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
Globalization -- Social aspects
Modernism (Aesthetics)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Reference.
Civilization, Modern
Globalization -- Social aspects
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Form Electronic book
Author Hayot, Eric, 1972- editor.
Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970- editor.
LC no. 2016026280
ISBN 9780231543064
0231543069
023116520X
9780231165204
0231165218
9780231165211