Cross-Channel Modernisms

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond >Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms 'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchanges in Britain, France and beyond and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of 'crossings' and 'channels' through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent, international context.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturtheorie
• ISBN: 9781474441889
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2022
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Jane A Goldman, Claire Davison, Derek Ryan