A Handbook of Modernism Studies

475 Pages·2015·3.267 MB·English

by  Jean-Michel Rabaté

A Handbook of Modernism Studies
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AHandbookofModernismStudies
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction 1
Jean-MichelRabat´e
1 HardandSoftModernism:Politicsas‘‘Theory’’ 15
PeterNicholls
2 StreamsBeyondConsciousness:StylisticImmediacy
intheModernistNovel 35
VickiMahaffey
3 ModernismsHighandLow 55
EricBulson
4 Kafka,Modernism,andLiteraryTheory 75
VivianLiska
5 Race:TraditionandArchiveintheHarlemRenaissance 87
JeremyBraddock
6 Empire,Imperialism,andModernism 107
JohnMarx
7 MarxistModernisms:FromJamesontoBenjamin 123
CatherineFlynn
8 ReactionaryModernism 139
RobertL.Caserio
9 TransnationalismattheDepartureGate 157
MatthewHart
vi Contents
10 FromRitualtotheArchaicinModernism:Frazer,Harrison,
Freud,andthePersistenceofMyth 173
ShanynFiske
11 Modernism,Orientalism,andEastAsia 193
ChristopherBush
12 TranslationStudiesandModernism 209
StevenG.Yao
13 Modernism,Mind,andManuscripts 225
DirkVanHulle
14 ModernismandVisualCulture 239
LauraMarcus
15 MoreKicksthanPricks:ModernistBody-Parts 255
MaudEllmann
16 MaterialitiesofModernism:Objects,Matter,Things 281
BillBrown
17 Glamour’sSilhouette:Fashion,Fashun,andModernism 297
JudithBrown
18 OthernessandSingularity:EthicalModernism 313
MarianEide
19 PhenomenologyandAffect:ModernistSulking 327
SaraCrangle
20 QueerModernism 347
BenjaminKahan
21 CulturalCapitalandtheRevolutionsofLiteraryModernity,
fromBourdieutoCasanova 363
JamesF.English
22 ModernismandCognitiveDisability:AGenealogy 379
JosephValente
23 FromParodytotheEvent;fromAffecttoFreedom:Observations
ontheFeminineSublimeinModernism 399
EwaPlonowskaZiarek
24 AestheticFormalism,theFormofArtworks,andFormalistCriticism 415
JonathanLoesberg
25 Rancie`re’sAestheticRegime:Modernism,Politics,
andtheLogicofExcess 431
MollyAnneRothenberg
Index 445
Notes on Contributors
JeremyBraddockisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatCornellUniversity.Heisthe
author of Collecting as Modernist Practice (2013) and co-editor of two collections,
Paris,CapitaloftheBlackAtlantic(2012)andDirectedbyAllenSmithee(2001).He
iscompletingabook-lengthprojecttitledTheArchiveoftheTwentiethCentury.
BillBrownistheKarlaSchererDistinguishedServiceProfessorinAmericanCulture
attheUniversityofChicago.HispublicationsincludeASenseofThings:TheObject
Matter of American Literature (2003), Things, a special issue of Critical Inquiry
(2001), Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Novels (1997), and The Material
Unconscious:AmericanAmusement,StephenCrane,andtheEconomiesofPlay(1996).
Currently,heiscompletingabookentitledOtherThings.
JudithBrownisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatIndianaUniversity,Bloomington.
She is the author of Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of
Form (2009), and is currently at work on a book called Passive States: Modernism
andtheUnproductiveLife.
Eric Bulson, Associate Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University, is
theauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoJamesJoyce(2006)andNovels,Maps,
Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 (2007). He is the recipient of the
2012CharlesA.RyskampResearchFellowshipsforhisprojectonLittleMagazine,
WorldForm.
ChristopherBushisAssociateProfessorofFrenchandProgramDirectorofCom-
parativeLiteraryStudiesatNorthwesternUniversity.HeistheauthorofIdeographic
Modernism: China, Writing, Media (2012). His next book project, forthcoming, is
entitledTheFloatingWorld:JaponisteAestheticsandGlobalModernity.
Robert L. Caserio, Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, is co-editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of
viii NotesonContributors
theEnglishNovel(2012)andeditorofTheCambridgeCompaniontotheTwentieth-
CenturyEnglishNovel(2009).
SaraCrangle,SeniorLecturerinEnglishattheUniversityofSussex,istheauthorof
Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (2010)
andtheeditorofStoriesandEssaysofMinaLoy(2011).Shehasco-editedOnBathos:
Literature,Art,Music(2010)withPeterNicholls.
MarianEide, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at
Texas A&M University, is the author of Ethical Joyce (2002). She is completing a
book on the aesthetic of violence in twentieth-century culture. She has edited the
issueoftheSouthCentralReview‘‘OnForgiveness’’(2010).
Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor in English at the
UniversityofChicago.SheistheauthorofThePoeticsofImpersonality:T.S.Eliotand
EzraPound(1987),TheHungerArtists:Starving,Writing,andImprisonment(1993),
Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2003), and The Nets of Modernism
(2010). She has edited Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (1994) and has published
widelyonJoyce,psychoanalysis,andIrishstudies.
JamesF.English,theJohnWelshCentennialProfessorofEnglishattheUniversity
ofPennsylvaniaandDirectorofthePennHumanitiesForum,istheauthorofComic
Transactions,Literature,Humor,andthePoliticsofCommunityinTwentieth-Century
Britain(1994),TheEconomyofPrestigePrizes,Awards,andtheCirculationofCultural
Value(2008),andmorerecentlyTheGlobalFutureofEnglishStudies(2012).
ShanynFiskeisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatRutgers-CamdenUniversity,where
shedirectsthewritingprogramandtheClassicalStudiesminor.Sheistheauthor
of Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular
Imagination (2008) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature
andclassicalreceptionstudies.SheiscompletingabookaboutGreektragedyand
traumaliterature.
CatherineFlynnisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatU.C.Berkeley.Shehaspublished
several articles on Joyce, Kafka, Surrealism, Walter Benjamin, Brecht, and the
theoriesoftheAvant-Garde.HertwobookprojectsareJamesJoyce,WalterBenjamin
and the Matter of Modernity and Flann O’Brien and the Second World War: The
CruiskeenLawn,1940–1945.
MattHartisAssistantProfessorofEnglishandComparativeLiteratureatColumbia
University. He is the author of Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism,
Transnationalism,andSyntheticVernacularWriting(2010)andhasco-edited‘‘Con-
temporary Literature and the State,’’ a special issue of Contemporary Literature
(2008).Heiscompletingabookonextraterritorialityincontemporaryart,fiction,
andpoliticaltheory.