Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / P.L. Caughie -- Definitional excursions : the meanings of modern/modernity/modernism / S.S. Friedman -- Uncanny modernism, or, Analysis interminable / S. Ross -- Imagining world literatures : modernism and comparative literature / J. Berman -- Taking the detour, finding the rebels : crossroads of Caribbean and modernist studies / M.L. Emery -- Some thoughts on religion and modernity : the case of the Lourdes shrine in nineteenth-century France / S.K. Kaufman -- Balzac's golden triangles in the colonial genealogies of French modernism / L. Constable -- Modern, moderne, and modernistic : Le Corbusier, Thomas Wallis, and the problem of art deco / B. Elliott -- Fantasies of the new class : new criticism, Harvard sociology, and the idea of the university / S. Schryer -- Downsizing "the great divide" : a reflexive approach to modernism, disciplinarity, and class / L. Cucullu -- Lady Chatterley's broker : the irresistible rise of modernist capitalism / J. Rose -- Modernism, economics, anthropology / G. Willmott -- Modernist studies and anthropology : reflections on the past, present, and possible futures / M. Manganaro -- The famished roar of automobiles : modernity, the internal combustion engine, and modernism / G. Leonard -- The mass production of the senses : classical cinema as vernacular modernism / M.B. Hansen
Beschreibung:
"A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Walliss Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine--what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process"--Provided by publisher