バッド・モダニズム Bad Modernisms

Mao, Douglas (EDT)/ Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (EDT)

Duke University Press（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.／サイズ 41 b/w photos
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822337973
• DDC分類 809.9112

基本説明

Builds on extends "new modernist studies," recent work marked by a commitment to diverse methods and attention to texts and artists not traditionally placed under the modernist heading. In this collection, these developments are exemplified in essays ranging from a comparative reading of European and African American dandyisms to a consideration of Filipino-American modernism in the context of anticolonialism.

Full Description

Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's most vibrant cultural constellation. Yet this widespread embrace raises questions about modernism's relation to its own success. Modernism's "badness"-its emphasis on outrageous behavior, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned-seems essential to its power. But once modernism is accepted as "good" or valuable (as a great deal of modernist art now is), its status as a subversive aesthetic intervention seems undermined. The contributors to Bad Modernisms tease out the contradictions in modernism's commitment to badness.Bad Modernisms thus builds on and extends the "new modernist studies," recent work marked by the application of diverse methods and attention to texts and artists not usually labeled as modernist. In this collection, these developments are exemplified by essays ranging from a reading of dandyism in 1920s Harlem as a performance of a "bad" black modernist imaginary to a consideration of Filipino American modernism in the context of anticolonialism. The contributors reconsider familiar figures-such as Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Josef von Sternberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. H. Auden, and Wyndham Lewis-and bring to light the work of lesser-known artists, including the writer Carlos Bulosan and the experimental filmmaker Len Lye. Examining cultural artifacts ranging from novels to manifestos, from philosophical treatises to movie musicals, and from anthropological essays to advertising campaigns, these essays signal the capaciousness and energy galvanizing the new modernist studies.

Contributors. Lisa Fluet, Laura Frost, Michael LeMahieu, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Jesse Matz, Joshua L. Miller, Monica L. Miller, Sianne Ngai, Martin Puchner, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New / Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz 1
Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism / Heather K. Love 19
The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of Modernism / Martin Puchner 44
Nonsense Modernism: The Limits of Modernity and the Feelings of Philosophy in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Michael LeMahieu 68
The Romance of Cliche: E.M. Hull, D.H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction / Laura Frost 94
Virginia Woolf's Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism / Rebecca L. Walkowitz 119
Black Venus, Blonde Venus / Sianne Ngai 145
The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist / Monica L. Miller 179
A Shaman in Common: Lewis, Auden, and the Queerness of Liberalism / Douglas Mao 206
The Gorgeous Laughter of filipino Modernity: Carlos Bulosan's The Laughter of My Father / Joshua L. Miller 238
Hit-Man Modernism / Lisa Fluet 269
Cultures of Impression / Jesse Matz 298
Bibliography 331
Notes on Contributors 353
Index 355