Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture (Literary Modernism)

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Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture (Literary Modernism)

Carstensen, Thorsten (EDT)/ Pirholt, Mattias (EDT)

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 300 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9789004519862
DDC分類 809.9112

Full Description

Our contemporary society is obsessed with the idea of self-optimization, a concept that implies the need to constantly work on improving oneself and one's appearance. The roots of postmodern self-optimization, however, lie in the cultural industries that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its equally profound and transient interest in new forms of expression, new ways of life, and new technologies, modernism thoroughly and critically embraced the idea of the self as something that can be created and recreated, either in accordance with or in contradiction to social norms. This book explores strategies of self-optimization developed in modernist literature and culture. In doing so, it offers a panoramic view of an often-overlooked aspect of European and North American modernity that anticipates our current postmodern crisis of the self.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture

Thorsten Carstensen and Mattias Pirholt

Part 1

The Self

1 The Freedom to Become: Henri Bergson's Recovery of the Unquantified Self

Thomas Sutherland

2 Making the Violin Happy: A Posthumanist Analysis of the Failure of Self-Optimization in Selma Lagerlöf's The Story of a Country House

Ann-Sofie Lönngren

3 Policing the Self in Malcolm Lowry's Fiction

Peter Childs

Part 2

Emotions and Nerves

4 "To Win Back the Right to Great Affects!" Nietzsche, Vitalism and Self-Optimization

Paul Bishop

5 Knut Hamsun, America, and Walt Whitman: On the Use of Literary Criticism as Self-Optimization

Eirik Vassenden

6 William and Henry James, the Neurasthenic Generation, and the Quest for Illness

Wenwen Guo

7 Paul Lasker-Schüler and the Troubled Legacy of "Crip Pedagogy" at the Odenwaldschule

Gunther Martens

Part 3

Body and Gender

8 Naked Triumphs and National Renewal: Heinrich Pudor and the German Life Reform Movement

Thorsten Carstensen

9 Perfect Bodies: Physical Culture and Self-Optimization in the United States Around 1900

Simon Wendt

10 "Perfection of the Life, or of the Work": W.B. Yeats and the Struggle for Self-Optimization

Peter Liebregts

11 The Tragedy of a Woman: Alma Karlin and the Fragmented Self

Nicole Perry

12 Gender and Self-Optimization in Irmgard Keun's Gilgi. Eine von uns and Das kunstseidene Mädchen

Brangwen Stone

Part 4

The Technology of Self-Optimization

13 Planning for Success: Gustav Großmann's Method of Self-Rationalization as an Economic Theory of Behavior

Ralph Köhnen

14 Henry Parland's Cyborgs: The Problematic Perfection of Man

Mattias Pirholt

15 Anthropotechnik? Ernst Jünger's Organic Constructions, Self-Optimization and Modernity

Nicholas Saul

16 Neues Bauen, Neues Wohnen: Self-Optimization through Better Architecture

Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Index