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Zusatztext Salvatore Pappalardo’s superb Modernism in Trieste brings together major discourses on the Mediterranean, Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Orientalism, Classicism, and Modernism, through the important prism of Trieste and its literatures. Focusing on Robert Musil, Italo Svevo, and James Joyce, Pappalardo both examines how these authors’ literary imagination challenged xenophobic nationalism and sheds new light on their works. Concentrating on the development of modernism from 1870-1945, his sophisticated analysis of the ambiguities of the rhetoric about European cosmopolitanism provides a rich new historical context for this important topic. Informationen zum Autor Salvatore Pappalardo is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Towson University, USA, where he teaches courses that range from the ancient Mediterranean to modern world literature. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature, Austrian and Italian modernism, and Mediterranean Studies. Vorwort Demonstrates how the idea of a united Europe was a modern literary utopia before it was an economic and political project. Zusammenfassung When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary imagination. This book examines the idea of Europe in the modernist literature of primarily Robert Musil, Italo Svevo, and James Joyce (but also of Theodor Däubler and Srecko Kosovel), all authors who had a deep connection with the port city of Trieste. Writing after World War I, when the contested city joined Italy, these authors resisted the easy nostalgia of the postwar period, radically reimagining the origins of Europe in the Mediterranean culture of the Phoenicians, contrasting a 19th-century nationalist discourse that saw Europe as the heir of a Greek and Roman legacy. These writers saw the Adriatic city, a cosmopolitan bazaar under the Habsburg Empire, as a social laboratory of European integration. Modernism in Trieste seeks to fill a critical gap in the extant scholarship, securing the literary history of Trieste within the context of current research on Habsburg and Austrian literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Trieste and the European Project: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics 1. The Adriatic Sea as a Phoenician Mediterranean, 1870-1925 2. A Mediterranean Monarchy: Robert Musil and the Politics of Non-National Loyalty, 1913-1943 3. Trojan Trieste: Italo Svevo and the Aesthetics of Austro-Italian Liminality, 1890-19234. Habsburg Hybrid: James Joyce and the Ethnolinguistics of Hiberno-Punic Mythography, 1904-1939 Conclusion: The Danube Flows into the Mediterranean Bibliography Index ...
