Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship between Modern Art and Modern Literature

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Overview

Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and Joyce are explored. The influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism is also examined. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute borders, crucial to our understanding of modernism in the last years of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312126605
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/13/1997
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Marco Rimanelli is Associate Professor of European and Security Studies at Saint Leo College in Florida.

Table of Contents

Contents:
Preface - Introduction: Reconfiguring Modernism - 'I Was the World in Which I Walked': The Transformation of the English Novel - Manet, James's The Turban of the Screw, and the Voyeuristic Imagination - The Influence of Gauguin on Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Cezanne and Eliot: The Classical Temper and the Unity of Eliot's Gerontion - Painting Texts, Authoring Paintings: The Dance of Modernism - Searching for Modernism's Genetic Code: Picasso, Joyce, and Stevens as a Cultural Configuration - Spiritually Inquisitive Images: Stevens' Reading of Modern Painting - Index

Editorial Reviews

[In] Reconfiguring Modernism, Schwarz has initiated a dialogue between literature and the other arts that should, in his words, "open the doors and windows of literature" to diverse points of view.” —Clio

“...a model balance of intellectual acuity and critical generosity...” —Jourbanal of English and Germanic Philology

From the Publisher

A model balance of intellectual acuity and critical generosity...

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

A model balance of intellectual acuity and critical generosity...