Europa! Europa? : : The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent / / ed. by Sascha Bru, Jan Baetens, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, Hubert Berg.

The first volume of the new series “European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies” focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The essays, written by experts from more than fifteen...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies , 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Borderless Europe, Decentring Avant-Garde, Mosaic Modernism
  • Terms and Canons
  • “What’s the Difference?” Revisiting the Concepts of Modernism and the Avant-Garde
  • The Slovenian Interwar Literary Avant-Garde and Its Canonization
  • Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde
  • The 20th Century: Century of the Arrière-Gardes?
  • “The Serpent Eats Its Tail”: Avant-Garde and Arrière-garde in Paris, 1943-1953
  • How We Look and Read: The European Avant-Garde’s Imprint on 20th-Century Theory
  • Images and Ideas
  • Phönix Europa? Krieg und Kultur in Rudolf Pannwitz’ und Hugo von Hofmannsthals europäischer Idee
  • Europa minor. Yvan and Claire Goll’s Europe
  • La revue Zenit: une avant-garde entre particularisme identitaire et internationalisme
  • Europa: une manifestation des avant-gardes européennes
  • L’avant-garde bulgare de l’entre-deux-guerres comme exemple de l’«autre Europe»
  • History or Europe: Images of Europe and Defense of Aesthetic Innovation in Post-1918 Poland
  • Ästhetische Moderne und totalitäres Anti-Europa: der spanische Avantgardist Ernesto Giménez Caballero
  • Ezra Pound’s Fascist “Europa”: Toward the Pisan Cantos
  • Writing the Foundations of a Better World: The Role of Anglo-German Literary Exchange in the Reconstruction of Germany and the Construction of Europe, 1945-1949
  • Avant-Garde or Civil Service? Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau and “The European Situation”
  • Tendencies and Identities
  • Discours internationaliste et conscience identitaire des échanges culturels : l’exemple belgo-allemand (Der Sturm, Résurrection)
  • Historizing Modern Art: The “Difficult” Names
  • The Insignia of Modernity and “le mouvement Apollinaire”
  • Okkultismus, Esoterik, Mystik und die Ikonographie des Unsichtbaren in der frühen mitteleuropäischen Avantgarde. Das Beispiel der Posener Gruppe Bunt und des Bauhausprofessors Lothar Schreyer
  • Apokalypse als Narrenspiel: Kurt Schwitters und die Mystik
  • Messianic Endgames in German-Jewish Expressionist Literature
  • “Here I am at home – here I am in a foreign land”. Multilingualism, Modernism and (De)territorialization in the Works of the Finland-Swedish Writer Elmer Diktonius
  • Configurations « autographiques » dans Mémoires d’une liseuse de draps de Belen/Nelly Kaplan, ou comment déclencher le fou rire
  • Europe and Its Others
  • Artificial Africa in the European Avant-Garde: Marinetti and Tzara
  • Seeing African Sculpture: Carl Einstein’s “ethnographie du blanc”
  • Surrealism for the Ear: Paul Deharme’s Radio-Plays
  • Amauta, l’Europe et les avant-gardes
  • Carpentier’s Marvellous Real: Modernity and its Discontents in the Tropics
  • Europa, Amerika in transition (1927-1938): Literatursprachliche Interkulturalität und Transgressionen des Avantgardesubjekts
  • Travels of an Avant-Gardist, West-East-West: On Kawara
  • The Colour of Modernism: Colour-Form Experiments in Europe and Australia
  • Backmatter