Modernism today / edited by Sjef Houppermans, Peter Liebregts, Jan Baetens and Otto Boele.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013. |
| Description | 283 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Houppermans, Sjef. |
| Other author/creator | Liebregts, P. Th. M. G. |
| Other author/creator | Baetens, Jan. |
| Other author/creator | Boele, Otto. |
| Series | Textxet ; 72 Text (Rodopi (Firm)) 72. ^A456240 |
| Contents | What modernism was and is: by way of an introduction / Sascha Bru and Dirk de Geest -- Towards modernism / Hans Bertens -- "The world is a fine adventurous place": Graham Greene in the 1930s / Peter Liebregts -- Sorties or entrenchment: Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between avant-garde and arrière-garde / Sjef Houppermans -- Intellectual scepticism versus avant-garde bragging: modernism in Dutch literature / Jacqueline Bel -- "The final Catholic": Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Réveil around the First World War / Geert Buelens -- Arrière-garde perspectives on the history of modern literature: the case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) / Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten -- How modernism disappeared from Fedor Gladkov's Cement between 1924 and 1958 / Arthur Langeveld -- Biocosmism and the Russian avant-garde: a literary cul-de-sac or the road to immortality? / Otto Boele -- Ten times Pessoa / Paulo de Medeiros -- Modernism in Greek literature (1910-1940) / Hero Hokwerda -- Fun home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania / Jan Baetens -- A modernist "attempt at cinema": the "impurity" of Pierrot le Fou / Peter Verstraten -- Modernism and the art of printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst / Peter de Voogd -- The (post)modern music of Edgard Varèse / Marcel Cobussen. |
| General note | "This book collects essays that stem from a series of initiatives ... set up by a Dutch-Flemish research group and sponsored by the NWO and the FWO (respectively, the Dutch and Flemish Research Foundations). Running for eight years (2002-2009) the group's activities resulted in four book-length collections of essays in Dutch, a selection of which is presented here in translation"--Page 1. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013362338 |
| ISBN | 9789042037441 (softcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 904203744X (softcover : acid-free paper) |
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