The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) - Softcover

Nilges, Mathias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138547646 ISBN 13: 9781138547643

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

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Reseña del editor:

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent scholarship on modernism and contemporary culture: the problems of aesthetic autonomy and the specific role of art in preserving a critical standpoint for cultural production; the relationship between politics and the category of the aesthetic; the problems of temporality and contemporaneity; literary transnationalism; and the questions of medium and medium specificity. Ranging across art forms, mediums, disciplines, and geographical locations, essays address the foundational questions that fuse modernism and the contemporary moment: What is art? What is the relation between art and the economy? How do art and technology interpenetrate and transform each other? What is modernism’s logic of time and contemporaneity, and how might it speak to the problem of thinking genuine novelty, or the possibility of an alternative to the current stage of neo-liberal capitalism? What is modernism, and what is its history? The book is thus committed to revising our understanding of what modernism was in its earlier instantiations, and in accounting for the current moment, addressing the problems raised by modernism's afterlives and reverberations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume includes essays that consider literature, sociology, philosophy, visual art, music, architecture, digital culture, television, and other artistic media. It synthesizes the most recent thinking on modernism and contemporary culture and presents a compelling case for what happens to literature, art, and culture in the wake of the exhaustion of postmodernism. This book will be of interest to those studying literature, visual art, media studies, architecture, literary theory, modernism, and twentieth-century and contemporary culture more generally.

Biografía del autor:

Michael D'Arcy is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Mathias Nilges is Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138547646
• ISBN 13: 9781138547643
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: D'Arcy Michael