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One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and
cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a
trend which is proving particularly important for modernist
studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and
geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the
twentieth century.
Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of
methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into
every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the
orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and
belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media
artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research
that ranges across the field of modernism, but also serves to
signal the many exciting new directions that future studies may
take.
With ground-breaking essays from an international team of
highly-regarded scholars, "Geographies of Modernism" is an
important step forward in literary and cultural studies.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of
technological progress and mass consumerism shaped the print
cultures of countries across the globe. Magazines in Europe, the
USA, Latin America, and Asia inflected a shared internationalism
and technological optimism. But there were equally powerful
countervailing influences, of patriotic or insurgent nationalism,
and of traditionalism, that promoted cultural differentiation. In
their editorials, images, and advertisements magazines embodied the
tensions between these domestic imperatives and the forces of
global modernity. Magazines and Modern Identities explores how
these tensions played out in the magazine cultures of ten different
countries, describing how publications drew on, resisted, and
informed the ideals and visual forms of global modernism. Chapters
take in the magazines of Australia, Europe and North America, as
well as China, The Soviet Turkic states, and Mexico. With
contributions from leading international scholars, the book
considers the pioneering developments in European and North
American periodicals in the modernist period, whilst expanding the
field of enquiry to take in the vibrant magazine cultures of east
Asia and Latin America. The construction of these magazines’
modern ideals was a complex, dialectical process: in dialogue with
international modernism, but equally responsive to their local
cultures, and the beliefs and expectations of their readers.
Magazines and Modern Identities captures the diversity of these
ideals, in periodicals that both embraced and criticised the
globalised culture of the technological era.
One of the most innovative tendencies in contemporary literary and
cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a
trend which is proving particularly important for modernist
studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and
geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the
twentieth century.
Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of
methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into
every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the
orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and
belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media
artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research
that ranges across the field of modernism, but also serves to
signal the many exciting new directions that future studies may
take.
With ground-breaking essays from an international team of
highly-regarded scholars, "Geographies of Modernism" is an
important step forward in literary and cultural studies.
Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary
literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of
postmodernism and postcolonialism. 'Moving Through Modernity'
offers the first full-length account of modernism from the
perspective of a critical literary geography. In stimulating new
readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and
Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also
central concerns for modernists. This book reveals the fascinating
ways in which modernism represented a variety of spaces and places,
from the city to the suburbs, and from urban monuments to
cartographies of empire. It also considers how emergent
technologies of transport, such as the motorcar and the underground
tube train, brought new experiences of modernity that were both
thrilling and disorienting to the modernist writer. Offering a
clear account of contemporary theorists of geography and space such
as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Michael Foucault, this
book will be of significant interest to all those working upon
modernism and modernity. It will also make a major contribution to
research into the exciting new field of literary geography. -- .
This innovative book aims to examine the crucial role played by the
spaces of the city in the construction of modernism. By focusing
upon a number of key cities the book is able to consider the
influence of the urban landscape upon the various modernisms that
appeared in the period from c.1890 to 1940. The book takes a
distinctive approach to the topic by focusing upon the interactions
between the literary texts and the institutions of cultural
production found in London, Paris, Berlin and New York. As well as
exciting analyses of key modernist texts, each chapter considers
the sites in which modernism emerged: publishing houses, bookshops,
discussion circles, salons, and cafes. Clearly argued throughout,
it demonstrates how particular geographies marked the nature of
modernism by analysing new urban features such as underground
transport systems; the growth of the suburbs; and architectural
forms such as the skyscraper. Particular attention is given to the
transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers
whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or
strangers (e.g. Joyce, Stein and Barnes in Paris; Eliot, James and
Pound in London; Isherwood in Berlin; Kafka on New York). This book
will be of major interest to all those studying modernism and also
to those working in related fields, such as urban studies and
cultural geography. Key Features * Wide ranging coverage of
authors, texts and films in the period * Interdisciplinary analysis
of the social and technological contexts of modernist production *
Clear focus upon four cities of central significance to modernism *
Introduces via key examples the theory of a critical literary
geography
Explores the crucial role played by the city in the construction of
modernism This innovative book examines the development of
modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin
and Vienna. Focusing on how literary outsiders represented various
spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of
affect and literary geography. Particular attention is given to the
transnational qualities of modernist writing by examining writers
whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles or
strangers, including Mulk Raj Anand, Blaise Cendrars, Bryher,
Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirrlees,
Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon and Stephen Spender. Key
Features The first book in modernist studies to bring detailed
discussion of these four cities together Breaks new ground in being
the first book to bring affect theory and literary geography
together in order to analyse modernism An extensive range of
authors is analysed, from the canonical to the previously marginal
Situates the literary and filmic texts within the context of urban
spaces and cultural institutions
This book offers a lively account of the Imagist Poets, the first
significant group of modernist poets writing in English. It
discusses what their writing achieved, and analyses the theoretical
claims of Imagism in relation to its poetic practice. It revises
the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of
modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and
the idea of literary institutions and formations. The book shows
the variety of practice within the Imagist group, and shifts the
focus from seeing Imagism purely as the creation of Ezra Pound, by
granting a much stronger focus to often overlooked figures such as
Amy Lowell, F.S. Flint and John Gould Fletcher. The book also
examines the cultural formation of Imagism as a movement competing
within the artistic avant-garde of London in the early twentieth
century.
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