Cross-Channel Modernisms Contributor(s): Davison, Claire (Editor), Ryan, Derek (Editor), Goldman, Jane A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474441874 ISBN-13: 9781474441872 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | European - French |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages |
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Publisher Description: Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond
Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms 'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchanges in Britain, France and beyond and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of 'crossings' and 'channels' through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent, international context. |