Modernism and Theory A Critical Debate [Paperback]

Modernism and Theoryboldly asks what  if any  role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture.

This collection

• examines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory.
• addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of modernism and modernism as a literary category.
• considers intersections of modernism and theory within ethics, ecocriticism and the avant-garde.

Concluding with an afterword from Fredric Jameson, the book makes use of an innovative dialogic format, offering a direct and engaging experience of the current debate in modernist studies.

Contributors include: Charles F. Altieri, C.D. Blanton, Ian Buchanan, Pamela Caughie, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Thomas S. Davis, Oleg Gelikman, Jane Goldman, Ben Highmore, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Bonnie Kime Scott, Neil Levi, Anneleen Masschelein, Scott McCracken, Andrew John Miller, Stephen Ross, Roger Rothman, Morag Shiach, Susan Stanford Friedman, Allan Stoekl, Hilary Thompson and Glenn Willmott.

Introduction: The Missing Link - Stephen Ross  Part One  The Modernism of Theory: Concrete Connections  Rip the Veil of the Old Vision Across, and  Walk Through the Rent: Thinking Through  Affect in D. H. Lawrence and Deleuze and Guattari - Anneleen Masschelein  Deleuze and His Sources - Ian Buchanan  Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Two Sublimes of Surrealism - Roger Rothman  The Two Sublimes, Fourth Time Around - Allan Stoekl  What true project has been lost? Modern Art and Henri Lefebvres Critiquel³+