1922: Literature, Culture, Politics

ISBN-13: 9781107662001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 295 str.

Jean-Michel Rabate

Opis

This book examines key aspects of culture and history in 1922, a year made famous by the publication of several modernist masterpieces.

Spis treści

1. Uncanny semblables and serendipitous publications: T. S. Eliot's The Criterion and The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses Gabrielle McIntire; 2. Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus Judith Ryan; 3. Odd encounters: from Marcel Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe to Albert Cohen's 'Projections ou Après-Minuit à Genève' Andre Benhaim; 4. Castle logic: hints in Kafka's novel Paul North; 5. In or about 1922: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and modern fiction Angeliki Spiropoulou; 6. Anglophones in Paris: Gertrude Stein and the aesthetics of collaboration Genevieve Abravanel; 7. Circa 1922: art, technology, and the activated beholder Christine Poggi; 8. Dada, futurism, and Raymond Roussel Jonathan P. Eburne; 9. The beginning and the end: the formalist paradigm in literary study Alastair Renfrew; 10. Hispanic watershed: 1922 in Latin America Michelle Clayton; 11. Restoration dramas: Hofmannsthal's The Great World Theater of Salzburg and Cocteau's Antigone Matt Wilson Smith; 12. Postwar new feminisms: May Sinclair and Colette Elizabeth A. Mosimann; 13. Durée et simultanéité and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: time and logic in 1922 Gregg Lambert; 14. Marxism in revolution: Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and Karl Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy Ádám Takáacs; 15. Principles of Relativity: Whitehead v. Russell Steven Meyer; 16. Modernist political theologies: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology (1922) and Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' (1921) Tracy McNulty; 17. Frazer's The Golden Bough and Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific: anthropology in 1922 Marc Manganaro.