Modernism, Narrativity and Bakhtinian Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Volume 1
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Approaching Modernism 1
6. 1. De-limiting Modernism
7. Introduction 9
8. Tracing the Modernist Paradigm 11
9. Cultural Parataxis and Transnational Landscapes of Reading 35
10. Modernism at Large 53
11. Modernist Innovations 67
12. 2. Reassessments
13. Introduction 87
14. Literary Modernism, Critical Theory and the Politics of Irony 89
15. A Map of All Possible Paths 107
16. Modernism, Narrativity and Bakhtinian Theory 125
17. The Subject, the Beautiful and the Sublime 143
18. 3. Tradition, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism
19. Introduction 155
20. Modernism and Tradition 157
21. Myths of Rupture 173
22. The Untimeliness of German Expressionism 195
23. Outside In/Inside Out 207
24. Modernism at the Crossroads 219
25. Thoroughly Modern Modernism 233
26. 4. Time and Space
27. Introduction 251
28. Still Life 253
29. Living with Fragments 271
30. Figurations of Childhood in Modernist Texts 291
31. Modernism and Trauma 307
32. 5. Mind and Body
33. Introduction 319
34. Modernism, Consciousness, Poetics of Process 321
35. Configurations of Self 339
36. The Face of Modernity 347
37. 6. Technology and Science
38. Introduction 365
39. Bookkeeping in the Modernist Novel 367
40. Modernism and Science 383
41. Modernism, Empirical Psychology and the Creative Imagination 405
42. Modernism and the Technologies of Insight 419
43. From Linear to Acoustic Space 431
44. 7. Literature and the Other Arts
45. Introduction 449
46. The New Critical Demotion of the Visual in Modernism 451
47. An End to Dwelling 469
48. Narrative Beginnings 487
49. (Re-)Dressing French Modernism 501
50. The Mother of Us All 513
51. Theatrical Modernism 531
52. Volume 2
53. 8. Social and Political Parameters
54. Fascist Modernism 547
55. A Center That Can Hold 561
56. Racial Politics, Modernist Poetics 573
57. Modernism and Ecological Criticism 591
58. 9. Cultural Conjunctions
59. Introduction 605
60. Modernity, Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Joyce and Eliot 607
61. “Determined and Bigoted Feminists” 619
62. Latent Icons 637
63. Primitive Art in Modernism 651
64. 10. Routes and Encounters
65. Introduction 673
66. The Untranslatability of Modernism 675
67. Haiku as a Western Genre 693
68. Modernist Africa as an Imaginary Foil 715
69. Exile and Literary Modernism 735
70. 11. Locations: Case Studies
71. Introduction 755
72. Brazilian Modernism 759
73. Belated Arrivals 769
74. Modernisme in Catalonia 781
75. French Literary Modernism 801
76. The Spanish American Modernismo 817
77. Borders of Modernism in the Nordic World 831
78. Central and Eastern European Symbolist Literature and Its Projects 879
79. Russian Modernism 891
80. In the Shadow of Byzantium 911
81. Approaching Spanish Modernism 931
82. The Spanish-American Novel and European Modernism 947
83. Modernism(s) in Dutch Literature 967
84. Greek Modernism and Inner-Oriented Art 991
85. Afterword 1009
86. Contributors 1013
87. Index of names 1025