Moving Modernisms : Motion, Technology, and Modernity

The essays in __Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity__, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and place, the volume moves to a focus on movement and motion, with topics ranging from modernity and bodily energies to issues of scale and quantity. The final chapters in the volume examine modernist film and the moving image, and travel and transport in the modern metropolis. "Movement is reality itself," the philosopher Henri Bergson wrote: the original and illuminating essays in __Moving Modernisms__ point in new ways to the realities, and the fantasies, of movement in modernist culture. This Book Opens Up The Many Dimensions And Arenas Of Modernist Movement And Movements: Spatial, Geographical And Political: Affective And Physiological; Temporal And Epochal; Technological, Locomotive And Metropolitan; Aesthetic And Representational. Individual Essays Explore Modernism's Complex Geographies, Focusing On Anglo-european Modernisms While Also Engaging With The Debates Engendered By Recent Models Of World Literatures And Global Modernisms. From Questions Of Space And Place, The Volume Moves To A Focus On Movement And Motion, With Topics Ranging From Modernity And Bodily Energies To Issues Of Scale And Quantity. The Final Chapters In The Volume Examine Modernist Film And The Moving Image, And Travel And Transport In The Modern Metropolis. 'movement Is Reality Itself', The Philosopher Henri Bergson Wrote: The Original And Illuminating Essays In This Book Point In New Ways To The Realities, And The Fantasies, Of Movement In Modernist Culture. Introduction: Modernism As 'a Space That Is Filled With Moving' / Laura Marcus And David Bradshaw -- Times And Places -- Placing Modernism / Andrew Thacker -- Micromodernism: Towards A Modernism Of Disconnection / Tim Armstrong -- Modernism's Missing Modernity / David Ayers -- Horizons -- Gibralter And Beyond: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Paul Bowles / Wai Chee Dimock -- Restless Modernisms: D. H. Lawrence Caught In The Shadow Of Gramsci / Robert J. C. Young -- Energies And Quantities -- High-energy Modernism / Enda Duffy -- Numbers It Is: The Musemathematics Of Modernism / Steven Connor -- 'do Not Call Me A Dancer' (isadora Duncan, 1929): Dance And Modernist Experimentation / Olga Taxidou -- Avant-gardes -- 'a Cessation Of Resemblances': Stein/picasso/duchamp / Marjorie Perloff -- 'a Cage Went In Search Of A Bird': How Do Kafka's And Joyce's Aphorisms Move Us? / Jean-michel Rabaté -- Discourses/voices -- Literature Knows No Frontiers: Modernism And Free Speech / Rachel Potter -- Moved By Language In Motion: Discourse, Myth, And Public Opinion In The Early Twentieth Century / Ken Kirschkop -- Precarious Voices: Moderns, Moods, And Moving Epochs / Patricia Waugh -- Motion Studies -- Stillness And Altitude: René Clair's Paris Qui Dort / Paul K. Saint-amour -- Frame-advance Modernism: The Case Of Fritz Lang's M / Garrett Stewart -- Perpetual Motion: Speed, Spectacle, And Cycle Racing / Deborah Longworth -- A Desire Named Streetcar / Julian Murphet. Edited By David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus And Rebecca Roach. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 289-304) And Index. Cover Moving Modernisms:Motion, Technology, and Modernity Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1: Introduction:Modernism as ‘a space that is filled with moving’ NOTES TIMES AND PLACES 2:Placing Modernism MODERNISM AND INTERNATIONALISM THREE QUESTIONS FOR TRANSNATIONALISM AND GLOBAL MODERNISM CONCLUSION: ‘NO SINGLE NATION’ NOTES 3: Micromodernism:Towards a Modernism of Disconnection SITES AND OCCASIONS TRAJECTORIES : ANTIPODEANS AND THE MODERNISM OF DISCONNECTION LEN LYE: FENDING OF SUREALISM PATRICK WHITE’S ANATOMY OF MODERNISM CONCLUSION: THE THIRTIES AND A MODERNISM OF DISCONNECTION NOTES 4:Modernism’s Missing Modernity NOTES HORIZONS 5: Gibraltar and Beyond:James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Paul Bowles NOTES 6: Restless Modernisms:D. H. Lawrence Caught in the Shadow of Gramsci TAORMINA CAGLIARI SORGONO LIRAS LIRAS LIRAS CONVICTS ON THE TRAIN NOTES ENERGIES AND QUANTITIES 7:High-Energy Modernism SCIENCES OF HUMAN ENERGY HUMAN ENERGY AND MODERNIST CULTURE NOTES 8: Numbers It Is:The Musemathematics of Modernism ZENO ALTERNATING CURRENTS TELLING NOTES 9: ‘Do Not Call Me a Dancer’ (Isadora Duncan, 1929):Dance and Modernist Experimentation NOTES AVANT-GARDES 10: ‘A Cessation of Resemblances’:Stein/Picasso/Duchamp NOTES 11: ‘A Cage Went in Search of a Bird’:How Do Kafka’s and Joyce’s Aphorisms Move Us? NOTES DISCOURSES/VOICES 12: Literature Knows No Frontiers:Modernism and Free Speech PEN AND WORLDLY FRONTIERS 1921–35 NOTES 13: Moved by Language in Motion: Discourse, Myth, and Public Opinion in the EarlyTwentieth Century NOTES 14: Precarious Voices:Moderns, Moods, and Moving Epochs NO PERIOD SENSE AT ALL THE MOODS OF MODERN WRITING: A NEW AGE OF ANXIETY? INTRODUCING BRITISH NEO-EXPRESSIONISM MOVING MODERNISM: FROM THE MELANCHOLIC TO THE DELUSIONAL MOOD FICTION AND THE POLITICS OF THE PRECARIOUS AND THE FRAGILE NOTES MOTION STUDIES 15: Stillness and Altitude:René Clair’s Paris qui dort NOTES 16: Frame-Advance Modernism:The Case of Fritz Lang’s M LANG’S OBJECTIF-ISM IMAGE VIS-À-VIS (OR VS?) NARRATIVE LOOKING ESPIED STOP-ACTION IMPACT: INTERTEXT AS SUBTEXT PANOPSIS AND PLOT NOTES 17: Perpetual Motion:Speed, Spectacle, and Cycle Racing NOTES 18:A Desire Named Streetcar NOTES Selected Bibliography Index The essays collected here open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. They point to the realities, and fantasies, of movement in modernist culture