With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, "Geographies of Modernism" is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.
With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, "Geographies of Modernism" is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: locating the modern 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia 3 'Mad after foreign notions': Ezra Pound Imagism and the geography of the Orient 4 Modernism Africa and the myth of continents 5 Spatial stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce 6 The interior: Benjaminian arcades Conradian passages and the 'impasse' of Jean Rhys 7 'A Savage from the Cannibal islands': Jean Rhys and London 8 Voyages by teashop: an urban geography of modernism 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp: the artist as traveller and geographer 10 'A sense through the eyes of embracing possession' (Henry James): Bird's-eye views of New York City 1880s-1930s 11 Memory geography identity: African writing and modernity 12 'Architecture or revolution'? Le Corbusier and Wyndham Lewis 13 Rem Koolhaas: from Manhattan to the city of exacerbated difference 14 Flannery References Index
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: locating the modern 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia 3 'Mad after foreign notions': Ezra Pound Imagism and the geography of the Orient 4 Modernism Africa and the myth of continents 5 Spatial stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce 6 The interior: Benjaminian arcades Conradian passages and the 'impasse' of Jean Rhys 7 'A Savage from the Cannibal islands': Jean Rhys and London 8 Voyages by teashop: an urban geography of modernism 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp: the artist as traveller and geographer 10 'A sense through the eyes of embracing possession' (Henry James): Bird's-eye views of New York City 1880s-1930s 11 Memory geography identity: African writing and modernity 12 'Architecture or revolution'? Le Corbusier and Wyndham Lewis 13 Rem Koolhaas: from Manhattan to the city of exacerbated difference 14 Flannery References Index
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