Modern Times. Literary Change seeks to redefine what we mean by
"literature" and "history" in European modernism studies. This book
develops a new functionalist approach for modern literary historiography
and introduces alternative methods for dealing with European writings
and their multiple mediatizations, histories and functions. Modern
Times. Literary Change illustrates these new insights in chapters
dealing with canonized figures (such as Robert Musil, Andre Breton, Man
Ray and Denis de Rougemont) as well as internationally less known
writers (such as Belgian avant-gardists Louis Scutenaire and Paul van
Ostaijen and Italian novelist Enrico Emanuelli). For both its
theoretical argument and its subtle readings this book will be of
interest to all those who study European literature from the modernist
period.
MDRN is a research-group based at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and
supervised by Jan Baetens, Sascha Bru, Dirk de Geest, David Martens and
Bart Van den Bossche.
- ISBN13 9789042929296
- Publish Date 24 May 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country BE
- Imprint Peeters Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 175
- Language English