A Time to Reason and Compare: International Modernism Revisited One Hundred Years After
This collection commemorates the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism. The second decade of the twentieth century witnessed an extraordinary burst of creativity and inquiry which left an indelible mark in literature, music, and the visual arts, as well as in their respective theoretical frameworks. As with other moments of crisis, the period was exceptionally rich in innovation and experimentation. For literature and the arts, it was also a time of great clashes, both contextually, most obviously because authors were faced with the events of the Great War, and internally, through radical contestation of the aesthetic and intellectual legacies of the past.
The passing of one hundred years provides an opportunity for homage, as well as critical assessment of intentions and accomplishments. The present volume brings together the work of scholars who focus on both early and late Modernism and its long-ranging cultural and literary reverberations, in order to widen the reader’s perspective of the significance of the modernist movement for contemporary art, theory and criticism. Contributions range from the Little Magazines and James Joyce to post-World War II theatre of the absurd; from literature in English to literature written in other languages, such as French and Portuguese.
Jorge Bastos da Silva works in the fields of English Literature and Culture, Intellectual History and Translation Studies at the University of Porto. He is the author and editor of a number of works, including The Epistemology of Utopia: Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination (2013), and Nowhere Somewhere: Writing, Space and the Construction of Utopia (2006).
Joana Matos Frias works in the fields of Literature and Intermediality, Comparative Aesthetics and Modern and Contemporary Poetry in Portuguese at the University of Porto. She is the author and editor of a number of works, including the recent collection of essays Cinephilia and Cinephobia in Portuguese Modernism (2015).
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