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Informationen zum Autor Sean Latham is Pauline Walter Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. He is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly , co-founder of the Modernist Journals Project. His teaching and research focuses on modernist studies, James Joyce, periodicals, media theory, and the digital humanities. He is the author or editor of nine books including “Am I a Snob?”: Modernism and the Novel ( 2003), The Art of Scandal : Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (2009), and The Little Review Ulysses (2015). Gayle Rogers is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He works primarily on global modernisms, literary history, translation, comparative literature, and periodicals. His publications include Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (2016), Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012), and a number of works in PMLA , Modernism/Modernity , Comparative Literature , NOVEL , Journal of Modern Literature , James Joyce Quarterly , The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms , Journal of Modern Periodical Studies , Modern Fiction Studies , Revista de Estudios Orteguianos , and 100 Escritores del siglo XX . Klappentext Modernism: Evolution of an Idea traces the development of the term "modernism" from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist studies. Rather than assuming and recounting the contributions of modernism's chief literary and artistic figures! this book focuses on critical formulations and reception through topics such as: the evolution of modernism from a pejorative term in intellectual arguments to its subsequent centrality to definitions of new art; new criticism and its legacies in the formation of the modernist canon in anthologies! classrooms! and literary histories; and shifting conceptions of modernism during the rise of gender and race studies! French theory! Marxist criticism! postmodernism! and more. Vorwort A concise history of modernist studies, from early poet-critics like T.S. Eliot, through New Criticism and critical theory to the new modernist studies and beyond. Zusammenfassung What exactly is 'modernism'? And how has the critical definition of the word changed? Exploring shifting understandings of modernism from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, this is a concise critical history of modernist criticism. Taking an accessible chronological approach, Modernism: Evolution of An Idea covers such topics as: •Early debates, from Calinescu's Five Faces of Modernity to The New Age magazine and writer-critics such as T.S. Eliot and Cyril Connolly•New Criticism and the forming of the modernist canon•The rise of Theory - from Derrida and Houston Baker to the Frankfurt School•New modernist studies and contemporary approaches: from international modernisms to engagements with race, sexuality and gender With annotated guides to further reading throughout and a companion website with additional resources, this is an essential survey for students and scholars working in modernist studies at all levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Origins 2. Consolidation 3. Expansion 4. The New Modernist Studies Epilogue: Make it NewerFurther ReadingIndex...
