Modern Times. Literary Change

By (author) J. Baetens By (author) S. Bru By (author) D. De Geest By (author) D. Martens By (author) B. Van den Bossche

Book cover: Modern Times. Literary Change

Extent: 175 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2013)

ISBN: 9789042929296

Price: $34.00

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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. This volumes 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.

  • By (author) J. Baetens
  • By (author) S. Bru
  • By (author) D. De Geest
  • By (author) D. Martens
  • By (author) B. Van den Bossche