Modernism Beyond the Human : : Transnational Perspectives / / Alberto Godioli and Carmen van den Bergh.

• Superior document: Critical Posthumanisms Series ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Godioli, Alberto, 1983-; Bergh, Carmen Van den,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bergh, Carmen Van den,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

One of the defining features of modernism lies in its far-reaching rethinking of the relation between the human and the non-human. In the present volume, this crucial aspect of modernism's legacy is investigated from an authentically transnational perspective, taking an innovative stance on a diverse range of authors - from posthumanist classics such as Beckett and Woolf to Valentine de Saint-Point, Radoje Domanovic and Aldo Palazzeschi among others. On the one hand, this collection sheds new light on the modernist contribution to posthumanism, providing a valuable reference point for future studies on the topic. On the other, it offers a new take on the transnational dimension of modernism, highlighting unexplored convergences between modernist authors from several different national contexts.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- Part 1 Modernism and the Nonhuman -- Chapter 1 Prefiguring Modernist Posthumanism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud and the Objectification of the Lyric Self -- 1 Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and the Humanist Tradition -- 2 From "Subjective" to "Objective" Poetry -- or, from the Human to the Posthuman -- References -- Chapter 2 Becoming-Digit: Valentine de Saint-Point's Posthumanist Futurism -- 1 Metachoric Performance: Virtual Geometry and Saint-Point's Posthumanism -- 2 Saint-Point's Posthuman Futurism as Performance Art: the Multimedia Body-Digit -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 Politics of Identity: Giuseppe Ungaretti's Poetry of the Great War between Nomadic Subjectivity and Performative Realism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nomadic Identity -- 3 Nomadic Ethics -- 4 Nomadic Memories and the Life-Death Continuum -- 5 Some Conclusions: an Intra-action of Performative and Nomadic Identities -- References -- Chapter 4 Variations on "Maquinismo": Looking beyond the Human in Ramón Gómez de la Serna's Writings -- 1 "Maquinismo" and the Non-human Art -- 2 Radio Waves, Atoms and Voices beyond the Human -- References -- Chapter 5 The Tender Being of Something Else: Geography and Lists in Gertrude Stein's Ida -- 1 Listing beyond the Human -- 2 Movement, "Nature," and the Accumulation of Lists -- 3 The Intrusive States of America -- 4 Impersonal Being, Negation, and Affirmation -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6 Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Subject/Object (Non)Relation -- 3 The Inhuman -- 4 An Orgy of False Becoming -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Modernist Animals.

Chapter 7 Rumination of a Serbian Ox: Radoje Domanovic's Satire of Anthropocentric Folly -- 1 Context and Overview -- 2 Irrational Humans: Analysis of The Leader, A Mark, and I Do Not Understand -- 3 A Thinking Animal: Analysis of Rumination of a Common Serbian Ox -- 4 Conclusion: Domanović between Serbian Literature, Russian Classics and Western Modernism -- References -- Chapter 8 "Come se": Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Pirandello's Short Stories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human and Animal: Interspecies Relations from Woolf to Pirandello -- 3 Animal Consciousness: Narrative Empathy -- 4 Mediated Empathy: Translating Animal Experience -- 5 Human-Animal Gap: Defamiliarization -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Modernist Exiles: the Berlin Years of Viktor Shklovsky, Aleksei Remizov, and the Masturbating Ape -- References -- Chapter 10 "Brandishing Her Plumes": Virginia Woolf, Feather Tropes, and the Plumage (Prohibition) Bill -- 1 Posthumanism -- 2 Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" -- 3 "The Plumage Bill" and Imperial Feminism -- 4 Tracing Woolf's Feather Tropes -- 5 Imperial and Military Plumes -- 6 India and Plumage in Mrs. Dalloway -- 7 Pluming Orlando: A Biography -- References -- Chapter 11 Posthumanism avant la lettre: Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities and the Boundaries of Humankind -- 1 Humankind and Modernity -- 2 The Boundaries of Humankind -- 2.1 Zoology -- 2.2 Ethnology -- 3 Posthumanist Narrative Form -- 4 Contextualizing and Transgressing the Concept of Man(kind) -- References -- Chapter 12 Animals and Logos in Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable -- 1 Unsanctifying Logos as Speech and Reason -- 2 Mastery over One's Environment and Objective Knowledge -- 3 Mastery over One's Language and through Language -- 4 Logos as Ground -- 5 Pure Humans -- 6 Toward Humbler Viewpoints -- 7 Conclusion.

References -- Chapter 13 Towards an Interpretation of a Modernist Bestiary in Color: Palazzeschi's Bestie del 900 and Maccari's Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Four-Handed Masterpiece -- 3 Palazzeschi's 20th-century Bestiary: Ways of Reading -- 3.1 The Individual and Its Contrast with Society -- 3.2 Power Relations -- 4 Gestalt Theory and the Interpretative Function of Images -- 5 The Hybrid as an Interpretative Category -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.