Planetary Modernisms : Provocations on Modernity Across Time.
Friedman, Susan Stanford.
Planetary Modernisms : Provocations on Modernity Across Time. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (466 pages) - Modernist Latitudes Series . - Modernist Latitudes Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Modernist Studies -- 1. Definitional Excursions -- 2. Planetarity -- Part II. Rethinking Modernity, Scaling Space and Time -- 3. Stories of Modernity: Planetary Scale in the Longue Durée -- 4. Figures of Modernity: Relational Keywords -- Part III. Rethinking Modernism, Reading Modernisms -- 5. Modernity's Modernisms: Aesthetic Scale and Pre-1500 Modernisms -- 6. Circulating Modernisms: Collages of Empire in Fictions of the Long Twentieth Century -- 7. Diasporic Modernisms: Journeys "Home" in Long Poems of Aimé Césaire and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Conclusion. A Debate with Myself -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence.
9780231539470
Modernism (Aesthetics).
Electronic books.
PN56.M54 F75 2015
809.9112
Planetary Modernisms : Provocations on Modernity Across Time. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (466 pages) - Modernist Latitudes Series . - Modernist Latitudes Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Modernist Studies -- 1. Definitional Excursions -- 2. Planetarity -- Part II. Rethinking Modernity, Scaling Space and Time -- 3. Stories of Modernity: Planetary Scale in the Longue Durée -- 4. Figures of Modernity: Relational Keywords -- Part III. Rethinking Modernism, Reading Modernisms -- 5. Modernity's Modernisms: Aesthetic Scale and Pre-1500 Modernisms -- 6. Circulating Modernisms: Collages of Empire in Fictions of the Long Twentieth Century -- 7. Diasporic Modernisms: Journeys "Home" in Long Poems of Aimé Césaire and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Conclusion. A Debate with Myself -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence.
9780231539470
Modernism (Aesthetics).
Electronic books.
PN56.M54 F75 2015
809.9112