Rabat - A Handbook of Modernism Studies

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A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Edited by Jean-Michel Rabat

This edition first published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A handbook of modernism studies / edited by Jean-Michel Rabat

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-65873-4 (cloth)

1. Modernism (Literature) Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Literature, Modern History and criticism Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Rabat, Jean-Michel, 1949 editor of compilation.

PN56.M54H35 2013

809.9112 dc23

2012046874

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Top: Joseph Kosuth, A Phenomenon of the Library, 2006. Courtesy of the artist and Joseph Kosuth Studio, London. Below: Ludmila Popova, Composition, 1920. Krasnodar Museum of Fine Arts. Photo akg-images / Erich Lessing.

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Notes on Contributors

Jeremy Braddock is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Collecting as Modernist Practice (2013) and co-editor of two collections, Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic (2012) and Directed by Allen Smithee (2001). He is completing a book-length project titled The Archive of the Twentieth Century.

Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture at the University of Chicago. His publications include A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003), Things, a special issue of Critical Inquiry (2001), Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Novels (1997), and The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (1996). Currently, he is completing a book entitled Other Things.

Judith Brown is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form (2009), and is currently at work on a book called Passive States: Modernism and the Unproductive Life.

Eric Bulson, Associate Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University, is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006) and Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 18502000 (2007). He is the recipient of the 2012 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships for his project on Little Magazine, World Form.

Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media (2012). His next book project, forthcoming, is entitled The Floating World: Japoniste Aesthetics and Global Modernity.

Robert L. Caserio, Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, is co-editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (2012) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (2009).

Sara Crangle, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, is the author of Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (2010) and the editor of Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (2011). She has co-edited On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (2010) with Peter Nicholls.

Marian Eide, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University, is the author of Ethical Joyce (2002). She is completing a book on the aesthetic of violence in twentieth-century culture. She has edited the issue of the South Central Review On Forgiveness (2010).

Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor in English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987), The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment (1993), Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (2003), and The Nets of Modernism (2010). She has edited Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (1994) and has published widely on Joyce, psychoanalysis, and Irish studies.