![]() ![]() Avant-garde studies can be enhanced and developed through dialogue with other disciplines, such as translation, gender, exile and comparative studies. White, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. The volume includes a lengthy introductory essay by Prof. Various aspects of the English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish avant-gardes are explored, examining both diverse literary genres such as prose, poetry and drama, and specific avant-garde movements such as Futurism and Surrealism. ![]() The essays cover both literary and artistic subjects, across geographical, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image Editor: Selena Daly and Monica Insinga Date Of Publication: Sep 2012 Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4054-5 Isbn: 1-4438-4054-8 The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image is an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays relating to the study of European Avant-Garde movements between 19. (2) In such cases, too, the resulting elliptical historical picture can be problematic. Few who recognize the names actually know Constantin Brancusi, Eugene Ionesco, or Tristan Tzara as Romanians, although they are well-known modernists or avant-gardists. Famous Eastern European artists and writers who expatriated themselves are the exception: critics and scholars often consider them as part of the European scene writ large, or as homeless international stars. Even significant figures belonging to modernist currents in East Central Europe, whole movements and circles, have been largely left out of the story of European modernism, rendering a fully inflected understanding of the phenomenon unlikely. While scholars have focused on France, England, Germany Austria (that is, Vienna), and Russia as sites of modernism, much less is known about the literary and artistic topography of Eastern Europe, including the various Austro-Hungarian hinterlands, during the tumultuous interwar decades. ![]() Modernism, already on the scene before the war, was significantly strengthened in the process. ![]() THE GREAT WAR and the continentwide reconfiguration that followed in its wake profoundly transformed the intellectual and cultural landscape, along with Europe's society and politics. ![]()
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