Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-252) and index.
Contents:
Part I Historicizing modernism. 1 'The Last Witnesses': Autobiography and history in the 1930s -- Laura Marcus 2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms -- Andrew Thacker 3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster's failed -- Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni 4 'Well now that's done: And I'm glad it's over': Modernism, history and the future -- Max Saunders 5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White -- Angeliki Spiropoulou Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes 6 Medium-New -- Tyrus Miller 7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes -- Sascha Bru 8 Clement Greenberg's modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? -- Rahma Khazam 9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic -- Alexandra Bickley Trott 10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau -- Rachel Silveri 11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle's transforming praxis -- Sanja Bahun.
Summary:
Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of modernism and the artistic avant-gardes. Cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions and featuring work from a variety of eminent scholars, it deals with issues as diverse as artistic medium, modernist print culture, autobiography as history writing, avant-garde experimentations and modernism's futurity. Contributors examine both literary and artistic modernism, combining theoretical overviews and archival research with case studies of Anglophone as well as European modernism, which speak to the current historicizing trend in modernist and literary studies. -- Provided by publisher.
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