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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature Exploring Individuation Alchemy and Symbolism

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature Exploring Individuation Alchemy and Symbolism

Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language. The book is an innovative exploration of modernist literary creativity under a Jungian lens spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle James Joyce and W. B Yeats are read in the light of Jung’s central theme of an ‘alchemical marriage’ with attempts at developing a related alchemical model a Jungian poetics which serves to expand a reader’s understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities namely in the field of modernist literature an area from which Jung has long been shunned. This book will be of great interest for academics researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of literature modernism psychoanalysis gender studies Jungian psychology depth psychology literary theory and cultural studies. . | Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature Exploring Individuation Alchemy and Symbolism

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Grainger the Modernist

Grainger the Modernist

Unaccountably Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation re-visioned the modern orchestra experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British American and Australian contexts the authors create a profile of a composer propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day and in some cases anticipated their practical experiments. | Grainger the Modernist

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Modernist Literature and European Identity

Modernist Literature and European Identity

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of modernist texts. Authors such as Ford Madox Ford T. S. Eliot Gertrude Stein Aimé Césaire and Nancy Cunard each developed their own notion of Europe. They engaged in transnational networks and experimented with new forms of writing supporting or challenging a European ideal. Building on insights gained from global modernism and network theory this book suggests that rather than defining Europe through a set of core principles we may also regard it as an open or weak construct a crossroads where different authors and views converged and collided.

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic social status economic/political gender and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán José Villagrán García Juan O’Gorman Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Agustín Hernández Abraham Zabludovsky Carlos Mijares Ricardo Legorreta Juan José Díaz Infante Enrique Norten Alberto Kalach Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures their projects nonetheless supported discrimination marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.

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Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality the occult and mysticism believing that the pure use of line shape color light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it. | Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

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The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created such architecture remains ambiguous. On the one hand the wider public associates it with the legacy of the unpleasant period of the real socialist economic regime. Yet on the other hand it is also a manifestation of social modernization and the promotion of a significant proportion of the population. This book focuses particularly on concrete heritage a legacy of modernist architecture in Central and Eastern Europe and it was this material that enabled their rebuilding after World War II and modernization during the following decades. The authors search for the value of modernist architecture and using case studies from Poland Bulgaria Northern Macedonia Lithuania and Slovenia verify to what extent this heritage is embedded in the local socio-economic milieu and becomes a basis for creating new values. They argue that the challenge is to change the ways we think about heritage from looking at it from the point of view of a single monument to thinking in terms of a place with its own character and identity that builds its relation to history and its embeddedness in the local space. Furthermore they propose that the preservation of existing concrete structures and adapting them to modern needs is of great importance for sustainability. With increasing awareness of the issue of preserving post-war architectural heritage and the strategies of dissonant heritage management this multidisciplinary study will be of interest to architecture historians conservators heritage economists urban planners and architects. | The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

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The Zen of Ecopoetics Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

The Zen of Ecopoetics Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams Marianne Moore Wallace Stevens and E. E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies including Zen and Taoism posthumanism and new materialism this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach informed by literary studies ecocriticism and religious studies proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics’ as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars researchers and students in ecocriticism literary theory poetry and religious studies. | The Zen of Ecopoetics Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

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The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Sołtan’s work including his designs theory and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students. The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan takes the reader on a journey to both sides of the iron curtain the communist Poland and the capitalist United States contributing to the existing scholarship on modernism in post-socialist counties on CIAM and on Team 10. It pictures Sołtan as a central player in the history of modernism building on his own contribution and on close relationships with Le Corbusier and Team 10. This book illustrates not only Sołtan’s work but also his life and how it influenced twentieth-century architecture. Looking in detail at his designs and texts enables the reader to discover how modern architecture tendencies can fit into a larger geopolitical context and how designs can be true manifestos to an architect’s theory. The reader will be immersed in a series of different contexts – from communist Poland the vibrant academic atmosphere at Harvard to lively discussions on the future of modern architecture. This publication will be of particular interest for those studying modern architecture in Central Europe and in post-socialist countries in particular Poland. Architects designers architectural and design students and modern architecture enthusiasts will find this publication on the “last modernist” architect revealing new perspectives thanks to the unpublished and unresearched sources. | The Life and Work of Jerzy Sołtan the “last modernist architect”

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The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores online shopping and ebooks we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century. | The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

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Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture tracing the roots developments and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones. Split into five chapters the book addresses specific case-studies of Costa’s professional activity pointing towards his multiple roles in the Brazilian federal government and focusing on passages of his work that are much less known outside of Brazil such as his role inside Estado Novo bureaucracy his leadership at SPHAN and his participation in UNESCO’s headquarters project all the way to the design of Brasilia. Digging deep into the original documents the book crafts a powerful historical reconstruction that gives the international readership a detailed picture of one of the most fascinating architects of the 20th century in all his contradictory geniality. It is an ideal read for those interested in Brazilian modernism students and scholars of architectural and urban planning history socio-cultural and political history and visual arts. | Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

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Modern Orthodoxies Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

Modern Orthodoxies Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

This study introduces a genuine provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period including Henry Roth Amedeo Modigliani James Joyce and Art Spiegelman revealing a significant engagement with the rituals of Jewish observance and the structure of Talmudic interpretation. While critics often view the formal experimentation of High Modernism as a radical departure from conventional beliefs this book shows that these aspects of Modernist art are deeply entwined with and indebted to the very traditions that they claim to be writing against. As such the book offers a unique and truly multidisciplinary approach to Modernist studies and a cogent analysis of the ways in which spirituality informs artistic production. | Modern Orthodoxies Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

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Translation and Modernism The Art of Co-Creation

Translation and Modernism The Art of Co-Creation

This innovative volume extends existing conversations on translation and modernism with an eye toward bringing renewed attention to its ethically complex appropriative nature and the subsequent ways in which modernist translators become co-creators of the materials they translate. Wittman builds on existing work at the intersection of the two fields to offer a more dynamic nuanced and wider lens on translation and modernism. The book draws on scholarship from descriptive translation studies polysystems theory and literary translation to explore modernist translators’ appropriation of source texts and their continuous recalibrations of equivalence between source text and translation. Chapters focus on translation projects from a range of writers including Beckett Garnett Lawrence Mansfield and Rhys with a particular spotlight on how women’s translations and women translators’ innovations were judged more critically than those of their male counterparts. Taken together the volume puts forth a fresh perspective on translation and modernism and of the role of the modernist translator as co-creator in the translation process. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation studies modernism reception theory and gender studies. | Translation and Modernism The Art of Co-Creation

GBP 130.00
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New Oceania Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific

New Oceania Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific

For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics forms and techniques with a range of other influences — realist novels avant-garde poetry anti-colonial discourse biblical verse Indian mythology American television Bollywood film — Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region’s transnational modernities. New Oceania presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars. | New Oceania Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific

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Modernism and the Mediterranean The Maeght Foundation

Modernism and the Mediterranean The Maeght Foundation

Situated in a Mediterranean landscape the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect José Luis Sert and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting including Joan Miró's labyrinth George Braque's pool Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time. | Modernism and the Mediterranean The Maeght Foundation

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Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body

Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body

Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects urban planners medical practitioners and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live work and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement bodily health technological innovation medical concepts natural environments and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes gardens and backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary field incorporating the urban humanities geography architectural history the history of medicine and critical visual studies that reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its corresponding therapeutic culture.

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Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays Manea sketches the intellectual parameters the visual languages and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions ’ an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director. This captivating book which will be attractive to anyone interested in Shakespeare and modern theatre.

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Victorian Photography Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory Already the Past

Victorian Photography Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory Already the Past

Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors cultural critics photographers and novelists this book argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come – including our own. The book will be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature visual culture and intellectual history as well as scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies. | Victorian Photography Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory Already the Past

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Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets

Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets

In Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetics in relation to photography’s ascendance by the mid-twentieth century as a distinctively modern force shaping representation and perception. As photography develops over the course of the century as an art form social tool and cultural force Loy’s relationship to a range of photographic cultures emerging in the first half of the twentieth century suggests how we might understand not only the intriguing work of this poet but also the shaping impact of photography and new technologies of vision upon modernist poetics. Framing Loy’s encounters with photography through intersections of portraiture Surrealism fashion documentary and photojournalism Kinnahan draws correspondences between Loy’s late poetry and visual discourses of the body urban poverty and war discerning how a visual rhetoric of gender often underlies these mappings and connections. In her final chapter Kinnahan examines two contemporary poets who directly engage the camera’s modern impact –Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall – to explore the questions posed in their work about the particular relation of the camera the photographic image and the construction of gender in the late twentieth century.

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Debating the 'Post' Condition in India Critical Vernaculars Unauthorized Modernities Post-Colonial Contentions

Debating the 'Post' Condition in India Critical Vernaculars Unauthorized Modernities Post-Colonial Contentions

How was the post-modernist project contested subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-modernism post-colonialism post-Marxism post-nationalism post-feminism post-secularism — the relations that mediate them — as well as interprets in the light of these discussions core tenets of Indian philosophical thought. Paranjape argues that India’s response to the modernist project is neither submission willing or reluctant nor repudiation intentional or forced; rather India’s ‘modernity’ is ‘unauthorized’ different subversive alter-native and alter-modern. The book makes the case for a new integrative hermeneutics the idea of the indigenous ‘critical vernacular’ and presents a radical shift in the understanding of svaraj (beyond decolonisation and nationalism) to express transformations at both personal and political levels. A key intervention in Indian critical theory this volume will interest researchers and scholars of literature philosophy political theory culture studies and postcolonial studies. | Debating the 'Post' Condition in India Critical Vernaculars Unauthorized Modernities Post-Colonial Contentions

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Magic Realism World Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Magic Realism World Cinema and the Avant-Garde

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures – art historian Franz Roh novelist Alejo Carpentier and cultural critic Fredric Jameson – drawing links between their political aesthetic and philosophical ideas on art’s relationship to reality. Magic realism is vast in scope spanning almost a century and is often confused with neighbouring styles of literature or art most notably surrealism. The fascinating conditions of modernist Europe are complex and contradictory a spirit that magic realism has taken on as it travels far and wide. The filmmakers and writers in this book acknowledge the importance of feeling atmosphere and mood to subtly provoke and resist global capitalism. Theirs is the history of magic-realist cinema. The book explores this history through the modernist avant-garde in search of a new theory of cinematic magic realism. It uncovers a resistant geopolitical form of world cinema – moving from Europe through Latin America and the former Soviet Union to Thailand – that emerges from these ideas. This book is invaluable to any reader interested in world modernism(s) in relation to contemporary cinema and geopolitics. Its sustained analysis of film as a sensory intermedial medium is of interest to scholars working across the visual arts literature critical theory and film-philosophy. | Magic Realism World Cinema and the Avant-Garde

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The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

The spatial turn in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as: Spatial theory and practiceCritical methodologiesWork sitesCities and the geography of urban experienceMaps territories readings. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic realist modernist and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world and of our own world system today.

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Excavating Modernity Physical Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature 1900-1930

Excavating Modernity Physical Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature 1900-1930

This book scrutinizes physical temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting photograph or projected light to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors working in a variety of genres from theatre to ghost stories children’s literature to modernist magna opera. | Excavating Modernity Physical Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature 1900-1930

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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories but in spite of this impressive number his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals gender and community relationships and narrative techniques. Taken together the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote. | Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

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