Modernism beyond the Human
Transnational Perspectives
Published on 11. October 2023
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-90-04-54967-8 (ISBN)
Description
One of the defining features of modernism lies in its far-reaching rethinking of the relation between the human and the non-human. In the present volume, this crucial aspect of modernism's legacy is investigated from an authentically transnational perspective, taking an innovative stance on a diverse range of authors - from posthumanist classics such as Beckett and Woolf to Valentine de Saint-Point, Radoje Domanovic and Aldo Palazzeschi among others.
On the one hand, this collection sheds new light on the modernist contribution to posthumanism, providing a valuable reference point for future studies on the topic. On the other, it offers a new take on the transnational dimension of modernism, highlighting unexplored convergences between modernist authors from several different national contexts.
On the one hand, this collection sheds new light on the modernist contribution to posthumanism, providing a valuable reference point for future studies on the topic. On the other, it offers a new take on the transnational dimension of modernism, highlighting unexplored convergences between modernist authors from several different national contexts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-54967-8 (9789004549678)
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Persons
Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). His publications on modernism include Laughter from Realism to Modernism (2015) and La scemenza del mondo (2011; Edinburgh Gadda First Prize). He is principal investigator of an NWO Vidi project on humor and
free speech jurisprudence (2022-2027), and founder of the Forum for Humor and the Law (www.forhum.org).
Carmen van den Bergh is Assistant Professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) in the Netherlands, where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department. Simultaneously she works in Belgium at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) as a senior research fellow for the Flemish Council for Scientific Research (FWO) with a project on the role of writers in newspapers and magazines of the Italian Novecento. Her specializations include Italian modernism, prose writings during the Italian interwar, (neo)realism in film and literature, the literary canon and the function of anthologies.
free speech jurisprudence (2022-2027), and founder of the Forum for Humor and the Law (www.forhum.org).
Carmen van den Bergh is Assistant Professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) in the Netherlands, where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department. Simultaneously she works in Belgium at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) as a senior research fellow for the Flemish Council for Scientific Research (FWO) with a project on the role of writers in newspapers and magazines of the Italian Novecento. Her specializations include Italian modernism, prose writings during the Italian interwar, (neo)realism in film and literature, the literary canon and the function of anthologies.
Content
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Alberto? ?Godioli?? and ??Carmen? ?van den Bergh?????
Part 1?
Modernism and the Nonhuman?
1?Prefiguring Modernist Posthumanism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud and the Objectification of the Lyric Self
??Alessandro? ?Cabiati?????
2?Becoming-Digit: Valentine de Saint-Point's Posthumanist Futurism
??Pavlina? ?Radia?????
3?Politics of Identity: Giuseppe Ungaretti's Poetry of the Great War Between Nomadic Subjectivity and Performative Realism
??Enrica? ?Maria Ferrara?????
4?Variations On "Maquinismo": Looking Beyond the Human in Ramon Gomez de la Serna's Writings
??A?ngela? ?Fernandes?????
5?The Tender Being of Something Else: Geography and Lists in Gertrude Stein's Ida???
??Laura? ?Oulanne?????
6?Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism
??Marc? ?Farrant??????
Part 2?
Modernist Animals?
7?Rumination of a Serbian Ox: Radoje Domanovic's Satire of Anthropocentric Folly
??Vedran? ?Catovic?????
8?"Come se": Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Pirandello's Short Stories
??Santi? ?Luca Fam?a??????
9?Modernist Exiles: the Berlin Years of Viktor Shklovsky, Aleksei Remizov, and the Masturbating Ape
??Asiya? ?Bulatova?????
10?"Brandishing Her Plumes": Virginia Woolf, Feather Tropes, and the Plumage (Prohibition) Bill
??Saskia? ?McCracken?????
11?Posthumanism avant la lettre?: Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities? and the Boundaries of Humankind
??Florian? ?Kappeler?????
12?Animals and Logos? in Samuel Beckett's Molloy?, Malone Dies?, and The Unnamable???
??Laura? ?Lainv?ae?e?????
13?Towards an Interpretation of a Modernist Bestiary in Color: Palazzeschi's Bestie Del 900? and Maccari's Illustrations
??Sarah? ?Bonciarelli??????
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
??Alberto? ?Godioli?? and ??Carmen? ?van den Bergh?????
Part 1?
Modernism and the Nonhuman?
1?Prefiguring Modernist Posthumanism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud and the Objectification of the Lyric Self
??Alessandro? ?Cabiati?????
2?Becoming-Digit: Valentine de Saint-Point's Posthumanist Futurism
??Pavlina? ?Radia?????
3?Politics of Identity: Giuseppe Ungaretti's Poetry of the Great War Between Nomadic Subjectivity and Performative Realism
??Enrica? ?Maria Ferrara?????
4?Variations On "Maquinismo": Looking Beyond the Human in Ramon Gomez de la Serna's Writings
??A?ngela? ?Fernandes?????
5?The Tender Being of Something Else: Geography and Lists in Gertrude Stein's Ida???
??Laura? ?Oulanne?????
6?Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism
??Marc? ?Farrant??????
Part 2?
Modernist Animals?
7?Rumination of a Serbian Ox: Radoje Domanovic's Satire of Anthropocentric Folly
??Vedran? ?Catovic?????
8?"Come se": Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Pirandello's Short Stories
??Santi? ?Luca Fam?a??????
9?Modernist Exiles: the Berlin Years of Viktor Shklovsky, Aleksei Remizov, and the Masturbating Ape
??Asiya? ?Bulatova?????
10?"Brandishing Her Plumes": Virginia Woolf, Feather Tropes, and the Plumage (Prohibition) Bill
??Saskia? ?McCracken?????
11?Posthumanism avant la lettre?: Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities? and the Boundaries of Humankind
??Florian? ?Kappeler?????
12?Animals and Logos? in Samuel Beckett's Molloy?, Malone Dies?, and The Unnamable???
??Laura? ?Lainv?ae?e?????
13?Towards an Interpretation of a Modernist Bestiary in Color: Palazzeschi's Bestie Del 900? and Maccari's Illustrations
??Sarah? ?Bonciarelli??????
Index