Abstract Visions: Modernist Approaches to Writing the First World War / Kate Symondson. Mind the Gap: Srylistics, Linguistics and Literary History / Gilles Philippe -- "Memory, of course, is never true." On Bullfighting, Writing, and History in Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon / Jan Baetens -- Creative Criticism vs. Creative Evolution: Thibaudet's Experiments in Bergsonian Historiography / Clement Girardi -- In Defense of Canonization / Ben De Bruyn -- Object with Love: Dodie Bellamy's Cunt Norton as a Speculative Anthology / Sarah Posman -- Regional Literature as Middlebrow? / Dirk de Geest -- Cover Stars and Covert Addresses: Strategies for Reading Magazines Across the "Great Divide" / Emma West -- The Material Turn of Literary History: On the Collective Book Petit muste d'histoire litteraire / Nadja Cohen -- From Far and Near: Literary Knowledge, the Interwar Novel, and the Tradition of Oral Storytelling / Bram Lambrecht -- Who is the Modern Arisrophanes? Modernism and the Classical Tradition / Matthias Somers -- Abstract Visions: Modernist Approaches to Writing the First World War / Kate Symondson.
Summary:
Recognizing that (modern) literary history is currently one of the main sites of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies, this volume takes stock of recent scholarship and investigates how literary historical research has modified our understanding of writing between 1900 and 1950. Its approach is radically multiperspectivist. Each contribution is presented under the heading of a label - from 'style' and 'anthology' to 'objects' and 'abstraction' - which sums up the approach to writing literary history the essay in question advances or reconsiders. In addition, the present book covers a highly variegated corpus, with texts, writers and literary phenomena from the lowbrow to the highbrow kind and from both major and minor cultural zones in the modernist period. This inclusive approach, both in methods and in case studies, is not only fully in line with the vision of the MDRN research lab, it also invites the reader to draw unforeseen parallels.
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