From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: European Modernity in the Making

by Nathalie Aubert

Overview

This volume of edited essays is the first one in English to offer a critical overview of the specific features of Belgian modernity from 1880 to 1940 in a multiplicity of disciplines: literature and poetry, politics, music, photography and drama. The first half of the book investigates the roots of twentieth century modernity in Belgian fin de siecle across a variety of genres (novel, poetry and drama), not only within but also beyond the boundaries of Symbolism. The contributors go on to examine the explosion of Belgian culture on the international scene with the rise of the avant-gardes, notably Surrealism: and the contribution made in minor genres, such as the popular novels of Simenon and Jean Ray, and the Tintin comics of Herge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351566377
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nathalie Aubert

Table of Contents

Introduction: Distance, Doubleness and Negation in the Belgian Avant-gardes Part I 1. Belgian Literature and the Symbolism of the Double 2. Maeterlinck and the Search for Music 3. On the Art of Crossing Borders: The Double Artist in Belgium, between Myth and Reality 4. Belgian 'Negro' Fiction: Modernist Itinerary of a Didactic Genre Part II 5. Modernity and Politics 6. Representation and Subjectivity: Belgian Playwrights and Modernity 7. A Sulphurous Time: Les contes du whisky by Jean Ray, a Translation of 'les Années Folles' 8. Belgian Photography between the Two World Wars, or the Hesitations between Late Pictorialism and the New Vision 9. Hergé–Simenon, Thirties 10. A Road Story of the Belgian Avant-Garde 11. The Avant-Garde on the Reworking of Tradition 12. Tranquil Independence': National Identity and Musical Modernity in Belgium between the Wars 13. Surrealism in Belgium between the Wars 14. Twenty years on — Distances: Belgian and French Surrealists and 'the' Revolution 15. The Splendours of Hatred: Louis Scutenaire between Surrealism and Situationism