... examines interlocking projects in radically different contexts that connected to one another along the political, cultural, and gendered margins of European modernisms. It details the assemblages of Spanish and Pan-American modernisms that Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, American journalist Waldo...

...Rather than positing a single international style in a single language—English—this article argues that global modernisms draw attention to cultural difference, destabilizes universalist idioms, and historicizes contexts. British modernism, largely worked out a century before, represented...

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...-modernisms of the Harlem Renaissance, and expatriate Sapphic modernism. Drag The West Foucault Michel on class knowledge sexual sexology spectacles tour guides Ulrichs Karl Heinrich underworlds visibility sexual West Mae group identity bisexual Hamilton Marybeth homosexuality adolescence and How...

...The chapter considers the dates at which modernism might be taken to have started and ended, and the ideological and aesthetic judgements we implicitly make when we periodize the movement. It examines the history of the idea of 1922 as modernism’s annus mirabilis, and its...

...Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism examines how first- and second-generation postcolonial writers responded to the experience of modernism within the context of an increasingly globalized world. The introduction traces the critical reception of modernism over roughly...

...The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new and progressive field of enquiry that locates crucial questions about what it means to live with animals at the foundation of modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field...

...On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet “East” as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity...

... Spencer Herbert Whitman Walt “Al margen de la moderna estética” “At the Margin of Modern Aesthetics ” Borges “Anatomía de mi ‘Ultra’” “Anatomy of My Ultra ” Borges “Elementos de preceptiva” “Elements of Rhetoric ” Borges “Historia del guerrero y de la cautiva” “Story of the Warrior and the Captive...

... of the original to Jakobson’s emphasis on paranomasia in “The Raven,” Poe was a cornerstone of the development of modern(ist) poetry on a transnational scale. Translational negotiation, along with defamiliarization and varied understandings of the “legitimate province of the poem,” would inform emerging poetics...

...Turkey constitutes something of an aporia on the critical-modernist typological grid. The problem presented by the idea of “Turkish modernism” involves the possibility of addressing the absence of an authentic Turkish modernism within national-critical discourse itself. While Turkey certainly has...

... that work. The discussion argues for a need to move away from a Eurocentric global history that impoverishes accounts of global modernisms. The fraught global interconnectedness among geomodernists and across empires reflects a condition that is both deeply ancient and strikingly contemporary, an old...

... Gasston, Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson), as well as individual essays and chapters in Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the present (ed. by Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross), Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (Alice Kelly...

... writing practices found in her later works. In this way, Acker’s poetic juvenilia emerge as possessing important co-ordinates for an understanding of her later writing experiments. Acker Kathy avant garde theory of Bernstein Charles L A N G U A G E modernisms poetics poetry radical modernism Stein...

...This chapter on Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990) examines the Caribbean poet’s ambivalent relationship with Anglophone modernism. It cautions that Walcott’s epic ambition to found a new tradition of Caribbean writing makes him reluctant simply to affirm or imitate the European...

...‘Modern European thought’ describes a wide range of philosophies, cultural programmes, and political arguments developed in Europe in the period following the French Revolution. Throughout this period, many of the wide range of ‘modernisms’ (and anti-modernisms) had a distinctly religious and even...

...Figure 18.1: Café Fanconi, Odessa, circa 1910 Figure 18.2: Café Herrenhof, Vienna Figure 18.3: Romanisches Café, Berlin One of the best and most productive ways to grasp the problem of location in Hebrew and Yiddish modernism is through the prism of the urban European café. Cafés help...