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Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernism

Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments - individual and collective - that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

Key Features

• Provides new and authoritative definitions of the revolutionary art, thinking and intellectual culture which flourished in the opening decades of the last century
• Demonstrates the ways in which modernism reconceptualised and realigned all twentieth- century art forms while also formulating the critical and cultural languages of that century
• Shows that modernism, in unique ways, already entailed its self-definition and articulated its own critique

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Autor

Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is an expert in international modernism and the avant-garde, with special interests in theory, surrealism, film, travel writing and the modernist reception of classical and modern Greece. Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (Routledge, 1998) and of Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) and of Post-War Cinema and Modernism: A Film Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). She is co-editor with Vassiliki Kolocotroni of The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pk, 2020) and with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Jane Goldman, Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748684069
• Artikelnr.: 72413036