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Europa! Europa?

The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent
  • Edited by: Sascha Bru , Jan Baetens , Benedikt Hjartarson , Peter Nicholls , Tania Ørum and Hubert van den Berg
Languages: English, German, French
Published/Copyright: 2009
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European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies

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The first volume of the new series “European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies” focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The essays, written by experts from more than fifteen countries, seek to bring out the complexity of the European avant-garde and modernism by relating it to Europe’s intricate history, multiculturalism and multilingualism. They aim to inquire into the divergent cultural views on Europe taking shape in avant-garde and modernist practices and to chart a composite image of the “other Europe(s)” that have emerged from the (contemporary) avant-garde and experimental modernism. How did the avant-garde and modernism in (and outside) Europe give shape to local, national and pan-European forms of identity and community? To what extent does the transnational exchange and cross-fertilisation of aesthetic tendencies illustrate the well-rehearsed claim that the avant-gardes form a typically European phenomenon? Dealing with canonised as well as lesser known exponents of modernism and the avant-garde throughout Europe, this book will appeal to all those interested in European cultural, literary and art history.

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Sascha Bru, Genth University, Belgium; Peter Nicholls, University of Sussex, UK.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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  • Introduction
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    Borderless Europe, Decentring Avant-Garde, Mosaic Modernism

    3
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  • Terms and Canons
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    “What’s the Difference?” Revisiting the Concepts of Modernism and the Avant-Garde

    21
    Astradur Eysteinsson
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    The Slovenian Interwar Literary Avant-Garde and Its Canonization

    36
    Marijan Dović
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    Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde

    49
    Piotr Piotrowski
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    The 20th Century: Century of the Arrière-Gardes?

    59
    William Marx
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    “The Serpent Eats Its Tail”: Avant-Garde and Arrière-garde in Paris, 1943-1953

    72
    Natalie Adamson
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    How We Look and Read: The European Avant-Garde’s Imprint on 20th-Century Theory

    94
    Sascha Bru
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  • Images and Ideas
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    Phönix Europa? Krieg und Kultur in Rudolf Pannwitz’ und Hugo von Hofmannsthals europäischer Idee

    113
    Cristina Fossaluzza
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    Europa minor. Yvan and Claire Goll’s Europe

    126
    Andreas Kramer
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    La revue Zenit: une avant-garde entre particularisme identitaire et internationalisme

    138
    Delphine Bière-Chauvel
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    Europa: une manifestation des avant-gardes européennes

    153
    Liliane Meffre
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    L’avant-garde bulgare de l’entre-deux-guerres comme exemple de l’«autre Europe»

    161
    Svetlana Ilieva
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    History or Europe: Images of Europe and Defense of Aesthetic Innovation in Post-1918 Poland

    181
    Ayelet Agnieszka Marczyk
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    Ästhetische Moderne und totalitäres Anti-Europa: der spanische Avantgardist Ernesto Giménez Caballero

    195
    Mechthild Albert
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    Ezra Pound’s Fascist “Europa”: Toward the Pisan Cantos

    210
    Ron Bush
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    Writing the Foundations of a Better World: The Role of Anglo-German Literary Exchange in the Reconstruction of Germany and the Construction of Europe, 1945-1949

    229
    Lara Feigel
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    Avant-Garde or Civil Service? Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau and “The European Situation”

    244
    Noit Banai
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  • Tendencies and Identities
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    Discours internationaliste et conscience identitaire des échanges culturels : l’exemple belgo-allemand (Der Sturm, Résurrection)

    267
    Francis Mus, Hubert Roland and Dennis Mol
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    Historizing Modern Art: The “Difficult” Names

    283
    Irina Genova
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    The Insignia of Modernity and “le mouvement Apollinaire”

    296
    Jed Rasula
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    Okkultismus, Esoterik, Mystik und die Ikonographie des Unsichtbaren in der frühen mitteleuropäischen Avantgarde. Das Beispiel der Posener Gruppe Bunt und des Bauhausprofessors Lothar Schreyer

    306
    Lidia Głuchowska
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    Apokalypse als Narrenspiel: Kurt Schwitters und die Mystik

    328
    Götz-Lothar Darsow
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    Messianic Endgames in German-Jewish Expressionist Literature

    342
    Vivian Liska
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    “Here I am at home – here I am in a foreign land”. Multilingualism, Modernism and (De)territorialization in the Works of the Finland-Swedish Writer Elmer Diktonius

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    Julia Tidigs
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    Configurations « autographiques » dans Mémoires d’une liseuse de draps de Belen/Nelly Kaplan, ou comment déclencher le fou rire

    373
    Andrea Oberhuber
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  • Europe and Its Others
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    Artificial Africa in the European Avant-Garde: Marinetti and Tzara

    391
    Kai Mikkonen
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    Seeing African Sculpture: Carl Einstein’s “ethnographie du blanc”

    408
    Rainer Rumold
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    Surrealism for the Ear: Paul Deharme’s Radio-Plays

    423
    Anke Birkenmaier
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    Amauta, l’Europe et les avant-gardes

    434
    Isabelle Krzywkowski
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    Carpentier’s Marvellous Real: Modernity and its Discontents in the Tropics

    446
    Esther Sánchez-Pardo
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    Europa, Amerika in transition (1927-1938): Literatursprachliche Interkulturalität und Transgressionen des Avantgardesubjekts

    464
    Thomas Borgard
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    Travels of an Avant-Gardist, West-East-West: On Kawara

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    Wolfgang Müller-Funk
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    The Colour of Modernism: Colour-Form Experiments in Europe and Australia

    494
    Andrew Mcnamara
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    Backmatter

    515
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October 29, 2009
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9783110217728
Hardcover published on:
November 16, 2009
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110217711
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Front matter:
12
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534
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37
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217728
eBook ISBN: 9783110217728
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110217711
Keywords for this book
Europe; Avante-Garde; Modernism; Experimental Aesthetics; Experimental Poetics
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