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The book coheres beautifully and highlights the paradox of modernism’s opposition to and reliance on past traditions. -- A. C. Stout * CHOICE * The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism is definitely a pathway to the genealogy of the modern from the beginning until nowadays. -- Georgia Tsatsani, University of Birmingham * Diogenes 9 (2020) * The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism is definitely a pathway to the genealogy of the modern from the beginning until nowadays. -- Georgia Tsatsani, University of Birmingham * Diogenes 9 (2020) * Dandy rubs elbows with dasein; Kino-Eye jostles kitsch; Négritude and Neo-pagans are nearest neighbors. Its entries elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and boundlessly informative, this is not only an irreplaceable but also a profoundly enjoyable work of reference for anyone, novice or expert, interested in modernism from abstraction to zaum. * Douglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University *

"The book coheres beautifully and highlights the paradox of modernism's opposition to and reliance on past traditions.--A. C. Stout ""CHOICE"" The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism is definitely a pathway to the genealogy of the modern from the beginning until nowadays.--Georgia Tsatsani, University of Birmingham ""Diogenes 9 (2020)"" Dandy rubs elbows with dasein; Kino-Eye jostles kitsch; N�gritude and Neo-pagans are nearest neighbors. Its entries elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and boundlessly informative, this is not only an irreplaceable but also a profoundly enjoyable work of reference for anyone, novice or expert, interested in modernism from abstraction to zaum.-- ""Douglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University"" The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism is definitely a pathway to the genealogy of the modern from the beginning until nowadays.--Georgia Tsatsani, University of Birmingham ""Diogenes 9 (2020)"""

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Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is an expert in international modernism and the avant-garde, with special interests in theory, surrealism, film, travel writing and the modernist reception of classical and modern Greece. Olga Taxidou is Professor Emerita of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor at New York University. She is the author of The Mask: a Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998, 2001), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004), Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht (2007) and Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998), Post-War Cinema and Modernity: a Film Reader (2000) and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (2018).

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