Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (New Modernisms) - Hardcover

Latham, Sean; Rogers, Gayle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472531248 ISBN 13: 9781472531247

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

What exactly is “modernism”? And how and why has its definition changed over time?

Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term “modernism” from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist studies. Rather than assuming and recounting the contributions of modernism's chief literary and artistic figures, this book focuses on critical formulations and reception through topics such as:

- The evolution of “modernism” from a pejorative term in intellectual arguments, through its condemnation by Pope Pius X in 1907, and on to its subsequent centrality to definitions of new art by T. S. Eliot, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, F. R. Leavis, Edmund Wilson, and Clement Greenberg
- New Criticism and its legacies in the formation of the modernist canon in anthologies, classrooms, and literary histories
- The shifting conceptions of modernism during the rise of gender and race studies, French theory, Marxist criticism, postmodernism, and more
- The New Modernist Studies and its contemporary engagements with the politics, institutions, and many cultures of modernism internationally

With a glossary of key terms and movements and a capacious critical bibliography, this is an essential survey for students and scholars working in modernist studies at all levels

About this title

Book Description:

A concise history of modernist studies, from early poet-critics like T.S. Eliot, through New Criticism and critical theory to the new modernist studies and beyond.

About the Author:

Sean Latham is Pauline Walter Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. He is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, co-founder of the Modernist Journals Project. His teaching and research focuses on modernist studies, James Joyce, periodicals, media theory, and the digital humanities. He is the author or editor of nine books including “Am I a Snob?”: Modernism and the Novel (Cornell University Press, 2003), The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Little Review Ulysses (New York: Yale University Press, 2015).

Gayle Rogers is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where is affiliated with the European Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Cultural Studies program. He works primarily on global modernisms, literary history, translation, comparative literature, and periodicals. His publications include Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2012), and a number of works in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Comparative Literature, NOVEL, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, and 100 Escritores del siglo XX. His book Incomparable Empires: American Literature, Spanish Translation, and Global Modernisms is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472531248
• ISBN 13: 9781472531247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272