"This book collects essays that stem from a series of initiatives ... set up by a Dutch-Flemish research group and sponsored by the NWO and the FWO (respectively, the Dutch and Flemish Research Foundations). Running for eight years (2002-2009) the group's activities resulted in four book-length collections of essays in Dutch, a selection of which is presented here in translation"--Page 1. "The first two books dealt with Modernisms from various European literatures (Modernisme(n) in de Europese letterkunde, 1910-1940, Leuven: Peeters, 2003; Modernisme(n) in de Europese letterkunde: een ander meervoud, Leuven: Peeters, 2005). The third volume looked at "arrière-gardes" (Arrière-garde. Modernisme(n) in de Europese letterkunds, deel 3, Amsterdam: Rozenberg, 2008), while the fourth and final book scrutinized the lasting influence of Modernism in more recent writing (De erfenis van het modernisme. Modernisme(n) in de Europese letterkunde, deel 4, Amsterdam: Rozenberg, 2010). All four volumes were edited by Jan Baetens, Sjef Houppermans, Arthur Langeveld and Peter Liebregts"--Page 1, footnote. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What modernism was and is : by way of an introduction / Sascha Bru and Dirk de Geest -- Towards modernism / Hans Bertens -- The world is a fine adventurous place : Graham Greene in the 1930s / Peter Liebregts -- Sorties or entrenchment : Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between avant-garde and arrière-garde / Sjef Houppermans -- Intellectual scepticism versus avant-garde bragging : modernism in Dutch literature / Jacqueline Bel -- The final Catholic : Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Réveil around the First World War / Geert Buelens -- Arrière-garde perspectives on the history of modern literature : the case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) / Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten -- How modernism disappeared from Fedor Gladkov's Cement between 1924 and 1958 / Arthur Langeveld -- Biocosmism and the Russian avant-garde : a literary cul-de-sac or the road to immortality? / Otto Boele -- Ten times Pessoa / Paulo de Medeiros -- Modernism in Greek literature (1910-1940) / Hero Hokwerda -- Fun home : Ithaca, Pennsylvania / Jan Baetens -- A modernist attempt at cinema : the impurity of Pierrot le Fou / Peter Verstraten -- Modernism and the art of printing : transition and Carolus Verhulst / Peter de Voogd -- The (post)modern music of Edgard Varèse / Marcel Cobussen.
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