...This chapter addresses the role Virginia Woolf plays in contemporary Polish literature, examining the significance of her modernist legacy – as a vital part of planetary feminism – to Polish feminist fiction. Though Woolf entered Polish culture in the 1920s and her hybrid fictional forms were...

...If a hymn is a collective song of praise, framed by its occasion and its institutional context, no genre could seem further from modernist poetry, with its characteristically fractured forms, emphasis on the isolated individual, and searching critique of modernity. This chapter argues...

...This chapter contends that the language of religious experience is in many ways indistinguishable from the language of epiphanies so central to literary modernism. Against critics who regard the Romantic epiphany as a secular form of revelation, it posits that modernist epiphanies cannot be fully...

...We look at the way some modernists explored new ways of experiencing sexuality—ways that reassessed monogamy’s role in culture, gender and its attendant roles, and queerness. Such queer lives were often complemented by these modernists’ attempts to live spiritually rich lives, wherein they often...

... forms Proust Marcel Schulman Grace de Chirico Giorgio Dickinson Emily Magallanes Nicholas Noguchi Isamu Orpheus ballet Tradition Literary history T. S. Eliot Baudelaire Virginia Woolf Form of life Edmund McKnight Kauffer Photography George Platt Lynes Modernist portraiture Between...

... this book challenges, such as Woolf’s Modernist break with the past and the complex question of Woolf feminism. This chapter also explores the different impulses driving Woolf’s engagement with biography over the course of her career, focussing especially on the central tension between biography...

...This chapter focuses on Salome’s ‘dance of the seven veils’ in silent film. It shows how the modernist choreographic forms traced in previous chapters intersected with the development of filmic representation in both Hollywood and France, tracing the emergence of new grammars of movement through...

... Tower (1934) and The Death of Cuchulain (1939) shaped his approach to stage space, modernist dramaturgy, Symbolist themes, stage pictures, and the depersonalisation of the performer, shaped by his collaborations with the practitioners Edward Gordon Craig, Michio Ito...

... State Irish Museum of Modern Art Keating Seán Irish Industrial Development mural Kennedy Róisín Ó’Faoláin Seán King Richard Moore George women McDonald Rónán Wilson Ann ‘Arts and Crafts Revivalism ’ Arts and Crafts applied arts modernist aesthetic visual arts Irish symbolism I n 1930...

... won the Booker Prize in 2018. These novels build on the modernist legacy of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Flann O’Brien by using experimental form specifically to critique orthodoxies of gendered power. All depict women and children injured and exploited by men but assign these victims the role...

...This chapter discusses Katherine Mansfield’s appreciation and revision of the Edwardian ideal of childhood as personified by Peter Pan. Though tropes related to Peter Pan abound in Mansfield’s writings, they are redressed as troubled, liminal, and gothic imaginings slanting towards modernist...

...This chapter discusses Woolf's revolutionary modernist texts and how these drew on literature as far back as the Greek classics and Shakespeare in order to engage with the vibrancy of these past works, showing that Woolf maintained a respect for the literary past and remained concerned about...

...The introduction describes the author's process of discovering the ultimate shape and focus of the book with its emphasis on circularity. It describes Murry's career before meeting Lawrence and Mansfield, and his first encounters with modernist art in Paris. It sets forth the theoretical issues...

...This chapter focuses on the modernist canon of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze and their shared interest in reading the works of Samuel Beckett, explaining that although their canons differ greatly, they shared an interest in Beckett. They both devoted a separate text to Beckett, to whose work...

... gap between the cusp of each of these collisions, or a liminal moment of increased autognostic perception, and concludes that they are revelatory and representative of modern – and modernist – anxieties about nostalgia, subjectivity and trauma. Time and experience, which could potentially foster...

...Since every stage of Ron Kirby and Carey Scott's relationship is marked by alterations in their domestic environments, Chapter 6 ("Back to the Future: Modernist Architecture and All That Heaven Allows") explores some of the conflicting social and cultural connotations that have...

...This chapter reads Enemy of the Stars as a confrontation between naturalist and modernist performance style, in light of his rivalry with Joyce, and places Lewis at the forefront of a theatrical (rather than literary) tradition which encompasses the major practitioners of modernist...

... enabled her to reconstruct her childhood with immediacy, re-emplace herself within her society of origin, and suggest a world of future possibility. At the end of her life Mansfield remained a modernist (post)colonial writer just as she was at the beginning, with the difference that locating death...

...The introduction maps out the place of chinoiserie in the upheavals of early-twentieth century artistic consciousness. As the basic tenets of Realism became increasingly challenged by Modernist questioning, chinoiserie ‘absurdities’ offered the Modernist artist escape from Realism’s transcriptively...

...’. The chapter looks at how literature employed ‘impure’ associations, as well as the challenge posed by Fry’s opinions on the unacceptable emotions often suggested by inferior works of art. It also looks at Woolf’s first attempts in modernist form. ‘A Talk About Memoirs’ Fry Roger Orlando Pevsner Nikolaus...