Modernism today
By: edited by Sjef Houppermans, Peter Liebregts, Jan Baetens and Otto Boele
Series: Textxet -- 72; Text (Rodopi (Firm)) -- 72.
Publisher: Rodopi; Editions Rodopi B.V.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9789042037441
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); European literature; History and criticism
Notes: "This book collects essays that stem from a series of initiatives ... set up by a Dutch-Flemish research group and sponsored by the NWO and the FWO (respectively, the Dutch and Flemish Research Foundations). Running for eight years (2002-2009) the group's activities resulted in four book-length collections of essays in Dutch, a selection of which is presented here in translation"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What modernism was and is: by way of an introduction / Sascha Bru and Dirk de Geest; title: Towards modernism / Hans Bertens; title: "The world is a fine adventurous place": Graham Greene in the 1930s / Peter Liebregts; title: Sorties or entrenchment: Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between avant-garde and arrière-garde / Sjef Houppermans; title: Intellectual scepticism versus avant-garde bragging: modernism in Dutch literature / Jacqueline Bel; title: "The final Catholic": Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Réveil around the First World War / Geert Buelens; title: Arrière-garde perspectives on the history of modern literature: the case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) / Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten; title: How modernism disappeared from Fedor Gladkov's Cement between 1924 and 1958 / Arthur Langeveld; title: Biocosmism and the Russian avant-garde: a literary cul-de-sac or the road to immortality? / Otto Boele; title: Ten times Pessoa / Paulo de Medeiros; title: Modernism in Greek literature (1910-1940) / Hero Hokwerda; title: Fun home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania / Jan Baetens; title: A modernist "attempt at cinema": the "impurity" of Pierrot le Fou / Peter Verstraten; title: Modernism and the art of printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst / Peter de Voogd; title: The (post)modern music of Edgard Varèse / Marcel Cobussen.