Popular Modernism and Its Legaciesreconfigures modernist studies to investigate how modernist concepts, figures, and aesthetics continue to play essential--though often undetected--roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and mediums.
Featuring both established and emerging scholars, each of the book's three sections offers a distinct perspective on popular modernism. The first section considers popular modernism in periods historically associated with the movement, discovering hidden connections between traditional forms of modernist literature and popular culture. The second section traces modernist genealogies from the past to the contemporary era, ultimately revealing that immensely popular contemporary works, artists, and genres continue to engage and thereby renew modernist aesthetics and values. The final section moves into the 21st century, discovering how popular works invoke modernist techniques, texts, and artists to explore social and existential quandaries in the contemporary world.
Concluding with an afterword from noted scholar Faye Hammill,Popular Modernism and Its Legaciesreshapes the study of modernism and provides new perspectives on important works at the center of our cultural imagination.
Scott Ortolanois Professor of English at Florida SouthWestern State College, USA. He is co-editor of
Perspectives on the Short Storyand recently co-edited a special issue of the
South Atlantic Reviewfocused on sustaining English programs in the 21st century.
Among the more profound shifts in the general fields of literary, theoretical and cultural studies in the past two decades has been the rethinking of Modernism beyond its narrowest period restrictions, as a between-the-wars phenomenon, say, and into its multiplicity, into Modernisms.Popular Modernism and its Legacy: from Pop Culture to Video Gamesis a major contribution to that ongoing discourse as it re-examines and re-evaluates wlÓ=
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