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The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. An unparalleled resource containing over fifty specially commissioned essays, the Handbook updates and extends the scope and depth of previous synoptic guides, bringing together new approaches to the more obvious themes of modernist studies as well as new research on the variety of cultural, aesthetic, and geographical factors that were intrinsic to the creation of modernism. The contributors draw upon a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and new methodologies in order to take account of the development of revisionist modernist studies over the past three decades. Two particularly innovative features of the Handbook are its focus upon the cross media and international character of modernism. A number of the essays examine visual culture and other media in order to delineate the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural formations linking the innovations and experiments of literary modernism with work in other arts and media. Others seek to analyse how Anglo-American and European models were inflected in a different temporal frame and in quite distinct geographical contexts. The Handbook is divided into six sections in order to reflect changed critical perspectives upon modernism's formal innovation and experiment, to foreground the relation of literature and the other arts, and to understand these in appropriate intellectual, social, and geocultural settings. The received canon is therefore revisited and 'made new' as the varying aspects of metropolitan, regional, national, and transnational modernisms come into view.

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Author:   Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham) ,  Andrzej Gasiorek (University of Birmingham) ,  Deborah Longworth (University of Birmingham) ,  Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 5.70cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.816kg
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9780198778448

ISBN 10:   0198778449
Pages:   1202
Publication Date:   25 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction Frameworks 1: Morag Shiach: Periodizing modernism 2: Sascha Bru: Modernism before and after theory 3: Finn Fordham: The modernist archive Practices and perspectives 4: Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery: Innovations in poetry 5: David James: Modernist narratives: revisions and re-readings 6: Michael Wood: The modernist novel in Europe 7: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr: Staging modernism: a new drama 8: Michael Valdez Moses: Modernists as critics 9: Deborah Longworth: Gendering the modernist text 10: Andrzej Gasiorek: Class Positions 11: Robert L. Caserio: Queer modernism 12: Joanne Winning: Lesbian sexuality in the story of modernism 13: Jonathan W. Gray: Harlem modernisms 14: Laura Doyle: Colonial encounters 15: Tim Youngs: Travelling modernists Contexts and conditions 16: Nicholas Daly: The machine age 17: John Xiros Cooper: Modernism in the age of mass culture and consumption 18: Aaron Jaffe: Publication, patronage, censorship 19: Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible: Modernism in magazines 20: Michael Bell: Primitivism: modernism as anthropology 21: Daniel Moore: Questions of history 22: Peter Osborne: Modernism and philosophy 23: Matt ffytche: The modernist road to the unconscious 24: Roger Luckhurst: Religion, psychical research, spiritualism, and the occult 25: Michael Whitworth: Science in the age of modernism 26: Marina MacKay: Violence, art, and war 27: Alan Munton: Modernist politics: socialism, anarchism, fascism Image, performance, and the new media 28: James Donald: Cinema, modernism, and modernity 29: Elena Gualtieri: Photography: the age of the snapshot 30: Sarah Victoria Turner: Modernism and the visual arts 31: Ramsay Burt: Dancing bodies and modernity 32: Debra Rae Cohen: Modernism on radio 33: Simon Shaw-Miller: Modernist music 34: Christopher Crouch: Architecture, design, and modern living Metropolitan movements 35: Scott McCracken: Imagining the modernist city 1870-1945 36: Andrew Hussey: Paris: symbolism, impressionism, cubism, surrealism 37: Richard J. Murphy: Berlin: dada, expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit 38: Andrew Thacker: London: rhymers, imagists, and vorticists 39: John J. White: Futurism in Europe 40: Martin Halliwell: The modernist Atlantic: New York, Chicago, and Europe 41: Nathan Waddell: Modernist coteries and communities National and transnational modernisms 42: Margery Palmer McCulloch: Scottish modernism 43: Carol Taaffe: Irish modernism 44: Daniel G. Williams: Welsh modernism 45: Timothy O. Benson: Central Europe 46: Emily Finer: Russian Modernism 47: Anker Gemzøe: Nordic modernisms 48: Dean Irvine: Modernisms in English Canada 49: Donald L. Shaw: Hispanic literature and the problem of modernism 50: Dave Gunning: Caribbean modernism 51: Tim Woods: Modernism and African literature 52: Supriya Chaudhuri: Modernisms in India 53: Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke: Antipodean modernisms: Australia and New Zealand 54: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Yi Zheng: Chinese modernisms: politics, poetry, and cultural dissonance 55: Vera Christine Mackie: Modernism and colonial modernity in early twentieth-century Japan Afterword: Peter Brooker: 'newness' in modernism, early and late Bibliography Index

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Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film, and Media at the University of Nottingham and was previously Research Professor at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex. He has written widely on contemporary writing, film, and cultural theory and is author of Bertolt Brecht, Poetry, Dialectics, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2002) and Bohemia in London (2004, 2007) and co-editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volumes 1-3. Andrzej Gasiorek is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on modernism and on post-war British fiction. He is a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and author of Post War British Fiction: Realism and After (1995), Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (2004) and J.G. Ballard (2005). Deborah Longworth is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Streetwalking the Metropolis (2000), Djuna Barnes (2003), and Three Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf (2006), and a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures. Andrew Thacker is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University and previously taught at De Montfort University. He is the author of Moving Through Modernity (2003), the editor of Dubliners Casebook (2006), and co-editor of The Impact of Michel Foucault (1997), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volumes 1-3. He is an editor of the journal Literature & History and director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University.

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