A Handbook of Modernism Studies

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A Handbook of Modernism Studies
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AHandbookofModernismStudies
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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.
NotesonContributors ix
BenjaminKahan,anAssistantProfessorofEnglishandWomen’sandGenderStud-
ies at Louisiana State University, has held postdoctoral fellowships at Washington
University in St. Louis, Emory University, and The University of Pittsburgh. His
book Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life is forthcoming from Duke
UniversityPress.
Vivian Liska is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of
Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp. She is the co-editor of Modernism
(2vols,2007).Otherbooksinclude:GiorgioAgambensleererMessianismus(2008),
WhenKafkasaysWe:UncommonCommunitiesinGerman-JewishLiterature(2009),
andFremdeGemeinschaft:Deutsch-ju¨discheLiteraturderModerne(2011).
Jonathan Loesberg, chair of the Department of Literature at the American Uni-
versity, is the author of Fictions of Consciousness: Mill, Newman and the Reading
of Victorian Prose (1986), Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and De
Man(1991),andAReturntoAesthetics:Autonomy,Indifference,andPostmodernism
(2005)HehaspublishednumerousarticlesonVictorianliterature,thenovel,literary
theory,andtheconnectionsbetweenliteratureandphilosophy.
Vicki Mahaffey is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English and
Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She is the author of Reauthorizing Joyce (1995), States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats,
Joyce,andtheIrishExperiment(1998),andLiteraryModernism:ChallengingFictions
(2007).ShehaseditedDubliners,Collaborative Dubliners:JoyceinDialogue(2012)
andiscompletingamonographonTheJoyceofEverydayLife.
LauraMarcus,Goldsmith’sProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatNewCollege,Oxford,
is the author of Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994),
VirginiaWoolf:WritersandtheirWork(1997),andTheTenthMuse:Writingabout
CinemaintheModernistPeriod(2007).Shehasco-editedTheCambridgeHistoryof
Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004). Her research projects include a book
on British literature 1910–1920, and a study of the concept of rhythm in the late
nineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturies.
John Marx is Associate Professor of English at UC Davis. He has published two
books,TheModernistNovelandtheDeclineofEmpire(2006)andGeopoliticsandthe
AnglophoneNovel,1890–2011(2012).HeiscompletingathirdbookentitledAfter
theUrbanRevolution.MarxisaneditoroftheJournalContemporaryLiteratureand
theauthorofnumerousarticlesonglobalization,cities,theworkofGeorgLuka´cs,
modernism,andpostcolonialism.
PeterNicholls,ProfessorofEnglishatNYU,istheauthorofModernisms:ALiterary
Guide(2ndedn2009),GeorgeOppenandtheFateofModernism(2007),andPolitics,
Economics and Writing: A Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1984). He has co-edited
TheCambridgeHistoryofTwentieth-Century EnglishLiterature(2004),Ruskinand
Modernism (2001), On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (2010) (with Sara Crangle),
x NotesonContributors
andRegardingthePopular:Modernism,theAvant-Garde,andHighandLowCulture
(2012).
Molly Anne Rothenberg is a Professor of English at Tulane University and a
practicing psychoanalyst. Her books include Rethinking Blake’s Textuality (1993)
andTheExcessiveSubject:ANewTheoryofSocialChange(2010).Shehasco-edited
PerversionandtheSocialRelation(2003)andZˇiˇzekNow(forthcoming).
JosephValente,ProfessorofEnglishandDisabilityStudiesatSUNY-Buffalo,isthe
author of James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial
Difference, Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness and the Question of Blood, and
The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880–1922. He has edited Quare
Joyce, co-edited Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle and the forthcoming Yeats and
Afterwords. He is completing a book on Autism and Moral Authority in Modernist
Literatureandco-writingIreland’sWaronChildren:ALiteraryPerspective.
Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp,
where he directs the Centre for Manuscript Genetics. He is the author of Textual
Awareness(2004),ManuscriptGenetics,Joyce’sKnow-How,Beckett’sNohow(2008),
and Samuel Beckett’s Library with Mark Nixon (forthcoming). He is currently
working on a genetic edition of Beckett’s The Unnamable for the Beckett Digital
ManuscriptProject.
StevenG.Yao,ProfessorofEnglishatHamiltonCollege,istheauthorofTranslation
and the Languages of Modernism (2002) and of Foreign Accents: Chinese American
Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (2010). He is the co-editor of Sinographies:
WritingChina(2008),PacificRimModernisms(2009),andEzraPoundandEducation
(2012).
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Buffalo. She is the author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of
Modernism(2012),AnEthicsofDissensus:Feminism,Postmodernity,andthePolitics
of Radical Democracy (2001), The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism,
Reinvention of Modernism (1995), the co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The
UnstableBoundariesofKristeva’sPolis(2005),TimefortheHumanities(2008)and
Intermedialities:Philosophy,Art,Politics(2010).