Gildea, N and Wylot, D (2019) The And of Modernism: On New Periodizations. Modernist Cultures, 14 (4). pp. 446-468. ISSN 2041-1022
Abstract
The study of literary modernism is in the ascendant in the academy. From alternate modernisms, to neomodernisms, to metamodernism and global modernisms, modernism scholarship has evolved through a configuration of modernism into a cross-cultural and inter-generational aesthetic practice. This article critically examines the periodizing logic implicit in this new modernism scholarship, specifically as it pertains to the study of what is loosely called ‘neomodernism’, which we suggest presents a notable development in literary history for accounts of contemporary fiction and postmodern culture. We are principally interested in a recent trend we observe in modernism literary criticism concerning the futurization of the object (literary modernism), and of critical work thereupon. This work, which specifically addresses developments in contemporary Western Anglophone literature, seeks to extend the project of modernism (sometimes called its ‘promise’) into the present, understanding it as the principal agency in literary distinction and merit. We examine this criticism through a series of case studies, and discern three interconnecting strands in neomodernist criticism – three ways of futurizing modernism, and of self-futurizing modernism criticism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Edinburgh University Press, 2019. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Modernist Cultures . The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2019.0267 |
Keywords: | Neomodernism; postmodernism; modernity; literary history |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2020 13:56 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2020 12:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/mod.2019.0267 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156222 |