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Scholarly edition of the correspondence between Hermann Bahr and Arthur Schnitzler, including further documents.
Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements
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"Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos--Franz Kafka's part ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker--the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials."
Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism.
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A ghost roams the modern world: "the ghost of the ego" With this sentence, Friedrich Nietzsche offers a diagnosis of the modern self that finds the royal road to the unconscious in mass imitation. In the footsteps of Nietzsche, modernist authors such as Joseph Conrad, DH Lawrence, Georges Bataille - read in dialogue with human sciences such as anthropology and psychoanalysis, research on hypnosis and mass psychology - question themselves about reflected mimetic phenomena that do not they are under the rational control of consciousness and are, in this sense, in-conscious. From identification to affective contagion, passing through sympathy and laughter, violence and magic, hypnosis and suggestion, the mimetic unconscious reveals how modernist authors make our concept of "I" new because they anticipate recent developments in neuroscience. They also offer us an out-of-date mirror to reflect critically on the becoming of our "I" as well as on the power of authoritarian leaders - past and present - to transform the mass subject into a copy or a "ghost of the ego."
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La littérature, dans la pratique fragmentaire de l’écriture, rejoint la jouissance au sens de Barthes. Commencer et finir, sans nécessité de construire de grands édifices, pour commencer et finir justement, sans cesse, en répétant le plaisir du premier mot, des premières images qui n’ont pas le temps de devenir clichés, commencer et finir pour éviter d’imposer un Moi unique, la présence d’un Auteur, pour détruire la représentation d’un monde... Le fragment littéraire montre ses intentions sans les développer, et par là même il rejette toute doxa mais, en même temps, il signale le danger d’en créer une de toute pièce, car en voulant peu dire souvent ce dire devient parole d’ordre.
Literary semiotics --- Underground literature --- History and criticism --- French literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Literature (General) --- littérature --- fragment
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Modernism in mathematics - this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting 'mathematical fictions' from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this text relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns. The analysis of canonical works by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil demonstrates how mathematics is accorded a central role as a particularly telling indicator of modernist transformations, and how imaginative illustrations contribute to establishing mathematics as part of modernist culture.
Modernism (Literature) --- Mathematics in literature. --- Mathematics and literature. --- Literature and mathematics --- Literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism.
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Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production. Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including literary analysis and history, linguistics, ethics, and queer, cultural, and film studies, Sanchez sheds new light on texts by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin, and many others. By approaching modernism through the perspective of Deaf and disability studies, Deafening Modernism reconceptualizes deafness as a critical modality enabling us to freshly engage topics we thought we knew. Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production. Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including literary analysis and history, linguistics, ethics, and queer, cultural, and film studies, Sanchez sheds new light on texts by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin, and many others. By approaching modernism through the perspective of Deaf and disability studies, Deafening Modernism reconceptualizes deafness as a critical modality enabling us to freshly engage topics we thought we knew.
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British Literature --- Poetry --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary studies: general --- Social Sciences --- Humanities --- Britain --- fiction --- Great Britain.
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a "poetics of investigation," she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel's place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.
Arabic fiction --- Arabic poetry --- Detective and mystery stories, Arabic --- Modernism (Literature) --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. --- History and criticism. --- Influence.
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Certaines œuvres du modernisme américain se définissent par leur « parti pris de la lettre ». La langue est affrontée en leur sein au risque de l'écriture. En effet, si la littérature moderne est écrite, si les œuvres postérieures à l'invention de l'imprimerie sont faites d'encre et de papier, toutes n'ont pourtant pas l'écriture pour objet. Conscientes de leur caractère matériel, de leur aliénation à la lettre, les œuvres de Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings et John Cage jouent et se jouent essentiellement de leur condition. L'usage non transitif qu'elles font de l'écriture est l'occasion d'une mise en scène édifiante sur la page. Elles démasquent chemin faisant le réel d'une activité qui n'a rien d'évident : ni purement formalistes, ni simplement expérimentales, elles interrogent radicalement ce que lire et écrire veulent dire et mettent la littérature au pied du mur et en demeure de répondre.
American poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- History and criticism --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- American literature --- Cummings (Edward Estlin) --- Cage (John) --- Stein (Gertrude)
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