A Handbook of Modernism Studies

The fourth volume in a new and innovative series exploring literature through the variegated lenses of critical theory, this bold new collection of essays examines canonical modernist texts by making sense of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical issues that underpin them. Edited by a renowned commentator on modernist theory and literature, the book features contributions from leading academics who have engaged in detailed analysis both of individual texts, and their links with theory and theoreticians. The handbook explores the deep affinity of leading theorists for specific modernist texts, unravelling the intellectual links between Adorno and Beckett, Derrida and Joyce, Foucault and Borges, and i ek and Kafka, among others. It also attests to the penchant of modernist authors such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Fernando Pessoa for particular aspects of philosophical and theoretical discourse. This compelling examination of the philosophical confluence between modernism and literature will attract students and scholars not just of literature, but in many other disciplines.

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Jean–Michel Rabat´e 1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as ‘‘Theory’’ 15 Peter Nicholls 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel 35 Vicki Mahaffey 3 Modernisms High and Low 55 Eric Bulson 4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory 75 Vivian Liska 5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance 87 Jeremy Braddock 6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism 107 John Marx 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin 123 Catherine Flynn 8 Reactionary Modernism 139 Robert L. Caserio 9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate 157 Matthew Hart 10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth 173 Shanyn Fiske 11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia 193 Christopher Bush 12 Translation Studies and Modernism 209 Steven G. Yao 13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts 225 Dirk Van Hulle 14 Modernism and Visual Culture 239 Laura Marcus 15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body–Parts 255 Maud Ellmann 16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things 281 Bill Brown 17 Glamour’s Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism 297 Judith Brown 18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism 313 Marian Eide 19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking 327 Sara Crangle 20 Queer Modernism 347 Benjamin Kahan 21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova 363 James F. English 22 Modernism and Cognitive Disability: A Genealogy 379 Joseph Valente 23 From Parody to the Event; from Affect to Freedom: Observations on the Feminine Sublime in Modernism 399 Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 24 Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks, and Formalist Criticism 415 Jonathan Loesberg 25 Ranci`ere’s Aesthetic Regime: Modernism, Politics, and the Logic of Excess 431 Molly Anne Rothenberg Index 445

Jean–Michel Rabat é is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Co–founder and curator of the Slought Foundation, which supports initiatives at the nexus of cultural and socio–political change, he has authored and edited more than thirty volumes on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and philosophy. His recent books include 1913: The Cradle of Modernism (2007), The Ethic of the Lie (2008) and Étant Donnés: 1) L’Art, 2) Le Crime (2010). The current president of the Samuel Beckett Society, he is working on books on psychoanalysis and literature, the future of literary theory and Samuel Beckett.