Modernism

Chris Forster, Syracuse University, USA From cinema and radio broadcasting to new communication technologies, Modernism and Its Media is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of modernist writing. Topics covered include: key thinkers, including Benjamin, Adorno, and McLuhan; modernist film – from Eisenstein to French New Wave; popular culture; histories of modernist media and communication technologies. With case studies covering such topics as the film writings of Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, popular art and kitsch, and the Frankfurt School, this is an essential guide for students and scholars researching the relationship between modernism and mass media.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781350033146 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350033153 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350033160 • £21.59 / $28.65 ePdf 9781350033177 • £21.59 / $28.65 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic

Irish Modernisms

Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities

Edited by Paul Fagan, University of Vienna, Austria, John Greaney, University College Dublin, Ireland & Tamara Radak, University of Vienna, Austria Focusing on previously unexplored lacunae of Irish modernism, this book interrogates neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism’s responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, it uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, queer theory, gender and canonicity, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn to rethink Irish modernism’s organizing themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death and mourning.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781350177369 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350177383 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350177376 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Florida State University, USA, Michael F. Miller, Independent Scholar, USA & Rodrigo Martini, Salem State University, USA Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human” to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines in today’s increasingly technological world. The contributors engage with the multiplicity of Flusser’s thought as they provide a general analysis of his work— including previously unpublished material from the Flusser archive— engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781501348433 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501348440 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501348457 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

The Distance of Irish Modernism

Memory, Narrative, Representation

John Greaney, University College Dublin, Ireland Rethinking the relationship between form and history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, this book examines how critics have previously categorized the Irish modernist novel, as an evidentiary form of cultural memory. John Greaney exposes the problems with such a stance, exploring novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and John McGahern through new critical paradigms in modernist studies. This approach contrasts the gap between modernist literature and national history with materialist approaches to modernism, and in so doing delineates how Irish modernism becomes both a world problematic as well as a container for national history.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781350125261 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350125285 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350125278 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Historicizing Modernism

Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK, Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway and David Tucker, The American College of Greece, Athens

Historical Modernisms

Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics

Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Angeliki Spiropoulou Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, and how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of high modernism and the artistic avant-gardes cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions. It features contributions from some of the best known modernist critics working today, and deals with issues as diverse as modernist new media and remediation, modernist print culture, autobiography as history writing, and modernism's futurity.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 272 pages • 25 b/w illus HB 9781350202962 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350202986 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350202979 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

The Politics of Closed Space

James Little, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Prisons appear again and again in Samuel Beckett’s work – from the literal asylum central to Watt to the metaphors of confinement that appear throughout the prose and dramatic works such as Waiting for Godot. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, this book explores these recurring ideas of confinement to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett’s work. Covering the full range of Beckett’s writing, it shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of his poetics.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350243224 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350112322 ePub 9781350112346 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350112339 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic