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 d...

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.