A Handbook of Modernism Studies

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"An invaluable resource for literary theorists and modernism scholars ... Highly recommended." Choice "A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration of the divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that are transforming our sense of how modernism was, is, and one day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level of engagement with modernist studies." Maria DiBattista, Princeton University "Jean-Michel Rabaté's expertly assembled Handbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literary texts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-date Continental theory. The 25 essays included here are as comprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated." Marjorie Perloff "This superb collection of new essays by leading figures in the field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet also excitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism in our time ... Indispensible for both experts and newcomers to the field." Sianne Ngai, Stanford University"A handbook, yes, but so much more: an inspiriting demonstration ofthe divergent, energetic, and innovative approaches that aretransforming our sense of how modernism was, is, andone day might be understood. Indispensable, whatever your level ofengagement with modernist studies."--MariaDiBattista, Princeton University "Jean-Michel Rabaté's expertly assembledHandbook of Modernist Studies rereads Modernist literarytexts through the lens of the most recent and up-to-dateContinental theory. The 25 essays included here are ascomprehensive and authoritative as they are sophisticated: studiesmaking use of the New Marxisms, cognitive science, queer theory,phenomenology and Rancière's "aestheticregime" are ingeniously flanked, in Rabaté'sIntroduction and the concluding essay by Jonathan Loesberg, byreconsiderations of Clement Greenberg's formalism and itsimportant version of Modernism as we now understandit."--Marjorie Perloff "This superb collection of new essays by leading figures inthe field provides the reader with a satisfyingly complete yet alsoexcitingly cutting-edge introduction to the study of Modernism inour time. Focusing on the productive tensions between art andtheory as they informed the cultural movements of the period, AHandbook of Modernist Studies will prove indispensible for bothexperts and newcomers to the field."--SianneNgai, Stanford University