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A Handbook of Modernism Studies Wiley-BlackwellCriticalTheoryHandbooks EachvolumeintheCriticalTheoryHandbooksseriesfeaturesacollectionof newly-commissionedessaysexploringtheuseofcontemporarycriticaltheoryin thestudyofagivenperiod,andthewaysinwhichtheperiodservesasasitefor interrogatingandreframingthepracticesofmodernscholarsandtheorists.The volumesareorganizedaroundasetofkeytermsthatdemonstratetheengagement byliteraryscholarswithcurrentcriticaltrends,andaimtoincreasethevisibilityof theoretically-orientedand-informedworkinliterarystudies,bothwithinthe disciplineandtostudentsandscholarsinotherareas. Published: AHandbookofRomanticismStudies EditedbyJoelFaflakandJuliaM.Wright AHandbookofAnglo-SaxonStudies EditedbyJacquelineStodnickandRene´eR.Trilling AHandbookofMiddleEnglishStudies EditedbyMarionTurner AHandbookofModernismStudies EditedbyJean-MichelRabate´ A Handbook of Modernism Studies Edited by Jean-Michel Rabate´ A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Thiseditionfirstpublished2013 ©2013JohnWiley&SonsLimited Wiley-BlackwellisanimprintofJohnWiley&Sons,formedbythemergerofWiley’sglobalScientific, TechnicalandMedicalbusinesswithBlackwellPublishing. RegisteredOffice JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ,UK EditorialOffices 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148-5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,Oxford,OX42DQ,UK TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ,UK Fordetailsofourglobaleditorialoffices,forcustomerservices,andforinformationabouthowto applyforpermissiontoreusethecopyrightmaterialinthisbookpleaseseeourwebsiteat www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. 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Coverdesignby:NickiAverillDesign Setin10.5/13ptMinionbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India 1 2013 Contents NotesonContributors vii Introduction 1 Jean-MichelRabat´e 1 HardandSoftModernism:Politicsas‘‘Theory’’ 15 PeterNicholls 2 StreamsBeyondConsciousness:StylisticImmediacy intheModernistNovel 35 VickiMahaffey 3 ModernismsHighandLow 55 EricBulson 4 Kafka,Modernism,andLiteraryTheory 75 VivianLiska 5 Race:TraditionandArchiveintheHarlemRenaissance 87 JeremyBraddock 6 Empire,Imperialism,andModernism 107 JohnMarx 7 MarxistModernisms:FromJamesontoBenjamin 123 CatherineFlynn 8 ReactionaryModernism 139 RobertL.Caserio 9 TransnationalismattheDepartureGate 157 MatthewHart vi Contents 10 FromRitualtotheArchaicinModernism:Frazer,Harrison, Freud,andthePersistenceofMyth 173 ShanynFiske 11 Modernism,Orientalism,andEastAsia 193 ChristopherBush 12 TranslationStudiesandModernism 209 StevenG.Yao 13 Modernism,Mind,andManuscripts 225 DirkVanHulle 14 ModernismandVisualCulture 239 LauraMarcus 15 MoreKicksthanPricks:ModernistBody-Parts 255 MaudEllmann 16 MaterialitiesofModernism:Objects,Matter,Things 281 BillBrown 17 Glamour’sSilhouette:Fashion,Fashun,andModernism 297 JudithBrown 18 OthernessandSingularity:EthicalModernism 313 MarianEide 19 PhenomenologyandAffect:ModernistSulking 327 SaraCrangle 20 QueerModernism 347 BenjaminKahan 21 CulturalCapitalandtheRevolutionsofLiteraryModernity, fromBourdieutoCasanova 363 JamesF.English 22 ModernismandCognitiveDisability:AGenealogy 379 JosephValente 23 FromParodytotheEvent;fromAffecttoFreedom:Observations ontheFeminineSublimeinModernism 399 EwaPlonowskaZiarek 24 AestheticFormalism,theFormofArtworks,andFormalistCriticism 415 JonathanLoesberg 25 Rancie`re’sAestheticRegime:Modernism,Politics, andtheLogicofExcess 431 MollyAnneRothenberg Index 445 Notes on Contributors JeremyBraddockisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatCornellUniversity.Heisthe author of Collecting as Modernist Practice (2013) and co-editor of two collections, Paris,CapitaloftheBlackAtlantic(2012)andDirectedbyAllenSmithee(2001).He iscompletingabook-lengthprojecttitledTheArchiveoftheTwentiethCentury. BillBrownistheKarlaSchererDistinguishedServiceProfessorinAmericanCulture attheUniversityofChicago.HispublicationsincludeASenseofThings:TheObject Matter of American Literature (2003), Things, a special issue of Critical Inquiry (2001), Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Novels (1997), and The Material Unconscious:AmericanAmusement,StephenCrane,andtheEconomiesofPlay(1996). Currently,heiscompletingabookentitledOtherThings. JudithBrownisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatIndianaUniversity,Bloomington. She is the author of Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form (2009), and is currently at work on a book called Passive States: Modernism andtheUnproductiveLife. Eric Bulson, Associate Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University, is theauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoJamesJoyce(2006)andNovels,Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000 (2007). He is the recipient of the 2012CharlesA.RyskampResearchFellowshipsforhisprojectonLittleMagazine, WorldForm. ChristopherBushisAssociateProfessorofFrenchandProgramDirectorofCom- parativeLiteraryStudiesatNorthwesternUniversity.HeistheauthorofIdeographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media (2012). His next book project, forthcoming, is entitledTheFloatingWorld:JaponisteAestheticsandGlobalModernity. Robert L. Caserio, Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, is co-editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of viii NotesonContributors theEnglishNovel(2012)andeditorofTheCambridgeCompaniontotheTwentieth- CenturyEnglishNovel(2009). SaraCrangle,SeniorLecturerinEnglishattheUniversityofSussex,istheauthorof Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (2010) andtheeditorofStoriesandEssaysofMinaLoy(2011).Shehasco-editedOnBathos: Literature,Art,Music(2010)withPeterNicholls. MarianEide, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University, is the author of Ethical Joyce (2002). She is completing a book on the aesthetic of violence in twentieth-century culture. She has edited the issueoftheSouthCentralReview‘‘OnForgiveness’’(2010). Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor in English at the UniversityofChicago.SheistheauthorofThePoeticsofImpersonality:T.S.Eliotand EzraPound(1987),TheHungerArtists:Starving,Writing,andImprisonment(1993), Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2003), and The Nets of Modernism (2010). She has edited Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (1994) and has published widelyonJoyce,psychoanalysis,andIrishstudies. JamesF.English,theJohnWelshCentennialProfessorofEnglishattheUniversity ofPennsylvaniaandDirectorofthePennHumanitiesForum,istheauthorofComic Transactions,Literature,Humor,andthePoliticsofCommunityinTwentieth-Century Britain(1994),TheEconomyofPrestigePrizes,Awards,andtheCirculationofCultural Value(2008),andmorerecentlyTheGlobalFutureofEnglishStudies(2012). ShanynFiskeisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatRutgers-CamdenUniversity,where shedirectsthewritingprogramandtheClassicalStudiesminor.Sheistheauthor of Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination (2008) as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature andclassicalreceptionstudies.SheiscompletingabookaboutGreektragedyand traumaliterature. CatherineFlynnisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatU.C.Berkeley.Shehaspublished several articles on Joyce, Kafka, Surrealism, Walter Benjamin, Brecht, and the theoriesoftheAvant-Garde.HertwobookprojectsareJamesJoyce,WalterBenjamin and the Matter of Modernity and Flann O’Brien and the Second World War: The CruiskeenLawn,1940–1945. MattHartisAssistantProfessorofEnglishandComparativeLiteratureatColumbia University. He is the author of Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism,andSyntheticVernacularWriting(2010)andhasco-edited‘‘Con- temporary Literature and the State,’’ a special issue of Contemporary Literature (2008).Heiscompletingabookonextraterritorialityincontemporaryart,fiction, andpoliticaltheory.
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