Disciplining Modernism [electronic resource] /
Caughie, P.editor.
A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / P.L. Caughie -- Definitional excursions : the meanings of modern/modernity/modernism / S.S. Friedman -- Uncanny modernism, or, Analysis interminable / S. Ross -- Imagining world literatures : modernism and comparative literature / J. Berman -- Taking the detour, finding the rebels : crossroads of Caribbean and modernist studies / M.L. Emery -- Some thoughts on religion and modernity : the case of the Lourdes shrine in nineteenth-century France / S.K. Kaufman -- Balzac's golden triangles in the colonial genealogies of French modernism / L. Constable -- Modern, moderne, and modernistic : Le Corbusier, Thomas Wallis, and the problem of art deco / B. Elliott -- Fantasies of the new class : new criticism, Harvard sociology, and the idea of the university / S. Schryer -- Downsizing "the great divide" : a reflexive approach to modernism, disciplinarity, and class / L. Cucullu -- Lady Chatterley's broker : the irresistible rise of modernist capitalism / J. Rose -- Modernism, economics, anthropology / G. Willmott -- Modernist studies and anthropology : reflections on the past, present, and possible futures / M. Manganaro -- The famished roar of automobiles : modernity, the internal combustion engine, and modernism / G. Leonard -- The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / M.B. Hansen.
A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Arts.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—Philosophy.
Cultural studies.
History, Modern.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Arts.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Studies.
Modern History.