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- Title: Europa! Europa?
- Author : Sascha Bru
- Release Date : January 29, 2009
- Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 28383 KB
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Nearly all articles collected in this book are thoroughly reworked versions of contributions to Europa! Europa?, the founding conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) held at Ghent University in May 2008.1 Focusing mainly on the decades, roughly, from the late 19th century up and until the Second World War, but also paying attention to later outgrowths of the so-called historical avant-gardes, all articles in this volume discuss an aspect of the relation between the “avant-garde”, “modernism” and “Europe”. Given the wide range of ideas and connotations triggered by each of these three notions throughout the continent and beyond, it might appear superlatively naive to attempt to bring them in the same orbit within a single book. Yet, on closer inspection, there are good reasons for doing so, the most evident one being that the heterogeneous use of the terms “avant-garde”, “modernism”, and their cognates, clearly mirrors Europe’s cultural and historical complexity. Despite this obvious fact, to date research into how the avant-garde and modernism have dealt with “Europe” itself has remained dispersed, even though it is a truism that the European avant-garde and modernism have always tended to display an ambivalent attitude towards “Europe”. What was the “old” Europe that avant-gardists and modernists rebelled against? Which cultural and philosophical stakes were invested in making Europe new or different? To what extent has the idea or cultural construction of Europe differed geographically and historically? And how precisely did alternatives to the “old” Europe look in the various media, arts and literatures of the avant-garde and modernism? These questions define the bulk of this volume, which shows that there are no simple answers to them. This book sketches a composite image of Europe through the prism of modernism and the avant-gardes, and vice versa, of modernism and the avant-gardes through the lens of European history.
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