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Book SynopsisFeaturing the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.
Trade Review“An invaluable resource for literary theorists and modernism scholars … Highly recommended.” Choice
"A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration of the divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that are transforming our sense of how modernism was, is, and one day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level of engagement with modernist studies." Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
“Jean-Michel Rabaté’s expertly assembled Handbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literary texts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-date Continental theory. The 25 essays included here are as comprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated.” Marjorie Perloff
“This superb collection of new essays by leading figures in the field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet also excitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism in our time ... Indispensible for both experts and newcomers to the field.” Sianne Ngai, Stanford University
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Jean-Michel Rabaté
1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as “Theory” 15
Peter Nicholls
2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35
Vicki Mahaffey
3 Modernisms High and Low 55
Eric Bulson
4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75
Vivian Liska
5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87
Jeremy Braddock
6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107
John Marx
7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123
Catherine Flynn
8 Reactionary Modernism 139
Robert L. Caserio
9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157
Matthew Hart
10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173
Shanyn Fiske
11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193
Christopher Bush
12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209
Steven G. Yao
13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225
Dirk Van Hulle
14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239
Laura Marcus
15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts 255
Maud Ellmann
16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281
Bill Brown
17 Glamour’s Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297
Judith Brown
18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313
Marian Eide
19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327
Sara Crangle
20 Queer Modernism 347
Benjamin Kahan
21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363
James F. English
22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379
Joseph Valente
23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415
Jonathan Loesberg
25 Rancière’s Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431
Molly Anne Rothenberg
Index 445
