One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between...
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One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century. Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the Orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research that ranges across the field of modernism. It also serves to identify the many exciting new directions that future studies may take. With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, Geographies of Modernism is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.
Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why geography?; Reintroducing modernism; Modernism and its contexts: modernity, globalization and the postcolonial; Literal and metaphorical geographies; 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world; Alternative modernities; Modernism at large; Transnational literatures; Revisiting high/low; High/low in a transnational context; Transnational suggestions; Legacies of modernism; Notes; 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia; The death of Tolstoy; The critical attitude; Russian literature in England; The invention of the intelligentsiaNotes; 3 'Mad after foreign notions'; Notes; 4 Modernism, Africa and the myth of continents; The portable continent; Geographies of African modernity: King Njoya's map of Bamum; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Spatial stories; 'When the geography was fixed'1; Memoranda and logs; Maps and tours; Epic geography; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The interior; Notes; 7 'A Savage from the Cannibal islands'; Notes; 8 Voyages by teashop; Notes; 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp; Genius of the place; Transformations; The readymade and modern Paris; A case for travellers: Box in a Valise; Broken landscapes: challenges to geographyNote; 10 'A sense, through the eyes, of embracing possession' (Henry James); King-size pictures; Note; 11 Memory, geography, identity; 12 'Architecture or revolution'?; Notes; 13 Rem Koolhaas; City project; Note; 14 Flannery; Flânerie and cinema; Television and telephony; Internet and installation; Coda; References; Index
