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Title

Modernism today / edited by Sjef Houppermans, Peter Liebregts, Jan Baetens and Otto Boele.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Houppermans, Sjef
• Liebregts, P. Th. M. G.
• Baetens, Jan
• Boele, Otto

Description

283 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Textxet ; 72
• Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature

Uniform Title

• Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature.
• Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 72.

Subject

• Modernism (Literature)
• Modernism (Literature) > Europe
• European literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

• 9789042037441 (softcover : acid-free paper)
• 904203744X (softcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2013362338

OCLC

• 859384147
• SCSB-11756917

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library