Overview

1913: The year of French modernism is the first book to respond to two deceptively simple questions: ""What constituted modernism in France?"" and ""What is the place of France on the map of global modernism?"" Taking its cue from the seminal year 1913, an annus mirabilis for literature and art, the book captures a snapshot of vibrant creativity in France and a crucial moment for the quickly emerging modernism throughout the world. Essays from specialists on works of literature, art, photography and cinema which were created or made public in and around 1913, outline in a dazzling fresco the protagonists, strategies and genres, the dynamics, themes, and legacies of what was French modernism. -- .

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Author:   Effie Rentzou ,  André Benhaïm
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526145024

ISBN 10:   1526145022
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   11 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Effie Rentzou Part I: 1913, French modernism and historical time Introduction 1 Prehistoric Proust – André Benhaïm 2 Fantômas and the shudder of history – Jonathan P. Eburne 3 Inventing, collecting and classifying in the margins: the work of Eugène Atget, a shift in photographic representation – Guillaume Le Gall 4 The anxious centre – Effie Rentzou 5 1913, the year of the arrière-garde? – William Marx Part II: 1913, 'French' and 'modernism' in question Introduction 6 A modernism that has not yet been: untimely Segalen – Christopher Bush 7 On situating French modernism: the strange location(s) of Le Grand Meaulnes – David R. Ellison 8 Les Caves du Vatican and the real novel – Gerald Prince 9 1913, between peace and war: Chagall’s Homage to Apollinaire and the European avant-garde – Annette Becker Part III: 1913, French modernism and intermediality Introduction 10 Camille Flammarion's flash-forward: the cinematicization of French thought and aesthetics (1867–1913) – Christophe Wall-Romana 11 How ‘simultaneous’ is it? Revisiting the Delaunay–Cendrars collaboration on La Prose du Transsibérien – Marjorie Perloff 12 Mallarmé’s modernity in 1913 – Virginie A. Duzer 13 Poetry displaced: Nijinsky, Delaunay, Duchamp – Mary Shaw 14 Behind Picasso's pins – Lisa Florman Part IV: Coda: on modernism, beyond France and 1913 15 1913, the future in the past – Jean-Michel Rabaté 16 The paradox and promise of the 'new' French Modernist Studies – Susan Stanford Friedman -- .

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Effie Rentzou is an Associate Professor of French at Princeton University Andre Benham is an Associate Professor of French at Princeton University

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