The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, ­all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Approaching Modernism (by Eysteinsson, Astradur); 3. 1. De-limiting Modernism; 4. Tracing the Modernist Paradigm: Terminologies of Modernism (by Mozejko, Edward); 5. Cultural Parataxis and Transnational Landscapes of Reading: Toward a Locational Modernist Studies (by Friedman, Susan Stanford); 6. Modernism at Large (by Huyssen, Andreas); 7. Modernist Innovations: A Legacy of the Constructed Reader (by Altieri, Charles); 8. 2. Reassessments; 9. Literary Modernism, Critical Theory and the Politics of Irony (by Martens, Gunther); 10. A Map of All Possible Paths: Modernism after Marxism (by Bru, Sascha); 11. Modernism, Narrativity and Bakhtinian Theory (by Gemzoe, Anker); 12. The Subject, the Beautiful and the Sublime: Adorno and Lyotard between Modernism and Postmodernism (by Zima, Peter V.); 13. 3. Tradition, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism; 14. Modernism and Tradition (by Fernald, Anne); 15. Myths of Rupture: The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde (by Hjartarson, Benedikt); 16. The Untimeliness of German Expressionism (by Liska, Vivian); 17. Outside In/Inside Out: Roaming the Frontiers of Modernism (by Houppermans, Sjef); 18. Modernism at the Crossroads: Types of Negativity (by Watten, Barrett); 19. Thoroughly Modern Modernism: Modernism and its Postmodernisms (by Slote, Sam); 20. 4. Time and Space; 21. Still Life: The Experience of Space in Modernist Prose (by Tygstrup, Frederik); 22. Living with Fragments: World Making in Modernist City Literature (by Keunen, Bart); 23. Figurations of Childhood in Modernist Texts (by Vloeberghs, Katrien); 24. Modernism and Trauma (by Baer, Ulrich); 25. 5. Mind and Body; 26. Modernism, Consciousness, Poetics of Process (by Van Hulle, Dirk); 27. Configurations of Self: Modernism and Distraction (by Alphen, Ernst van); 28. The Face of Modernity (by Pausch, Holger A.); 29. 6. Technology and Science; 30. Bookkeeping in the Modernist Novel (by Corngold, Stanley); 31. Modernism and Science (by Henderson, Linda Dalrymple); 32. Modernism, Empirical Psychology and the Creative Imagination (by Rae, Patricia); 33. Modernism and the Technologies of Insight (by Nelson, Julian); 34. From Linear to Acoustic Space: New Media Environments and New Modernist Forms (by Lamberti, Elena); 35. 7. Literature and the Other Arts; 36. The New Critical Demotion of the Visual in Modernism (by Cianci, Giovanni); 37. An End to Dwelling: Reflections on Modern Literature and Architecture (by Spurr, David); 38. Narrative Beginnings: Modernist Literature and the Medium of Film (by Lothe, Jakob); 39. (Re-)Dressing French Modernism: Decor, Costume, and the Decorative in an Interarts Perspective (by Elliott, Bridget); 40. The Mother of Us All: Modernism, Literature and Music (by Bucknell, Brad); 41. Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic (by Ley, Graham); 42. 8. Social and Political Parameters; 43. Fascist Modernism (by Welge, Jobst); 44. A Center That Can Hold: The Figure of Empire in Portuguese and Austrian Modernism (by Ribeiro, Antonio Sousa); 45. Racial Politics, Modernist Poetics (by Seshagiri, Urmila); 46. Modernism and Ecological Criticism (by Bryson, Scott); 47. 9. Cultural Conjunctions; 48. Modernity, Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Joyce and Eliot (by Kershner, R. Brandon); 49. "Determined and Bigoted Feminists": Women, Magazine and Popular Modernism (by Majerus, Elisabeth); 50. Latent Icons: Compensatory Symbols of the Sacred in Modernist Literature and Painting (by Faris, Wendy B.); 51. Primitive Art in Modernism: The Ambivalence of Appropriation (by Fortunati, Vita); 52. 10. Routes and Encounters; 53. The Untranslatability of Modernism (by Caneda-Cabrera, M. Teresa); 54. Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of Modernism (by Hokenson, Jan Walsh); 55. Modernist Africa as an Imaginary Foil: From Pierre Loti's Implied Ethnologist to the Heterotopian Zone (by Mikkonen, Kai); 56. Exile and Literary Modernism (by Olsson, Anders); 57. 11. Locations: Case Studies; 58. Brazilian Modernism (by De Faria Coutinho, Eduardo); 59. Belated Arrivals: Gender, Colonialism and Modernism in Australia (by Dalziell, Tanya); 60. Modernisme in Catalonia (by Epps, Brad); 61. French Literary Modernism (by Healey, Kimberley); 62. The Spanish American Modernismo (by Jrade, Cathy L.); 63. Borders of Modernism in the Nordic World (by Eysteinsson, Astradur); 64. Central and Eastern European Symbolist Literature and Its Projects (by Krasztev, Peter); 65. Russian Modernism (by Mozejko, Edward); 66. In the Shadow of Byzantium: Modernism in Italian Literature (by Somigli, Luca); 67. Approaching Spanish Modernism: Tradition and the "New Man" (by Soufas, C. Christopher); 68. The Spanish-American Novel and European Modernism (by Delden, Maarten van); 69. Modernism(s) in Dutch Literature (by Berg, Hubert F. van den); 70. Greek Modernism and Inner-Oriented Art (by Voyiatzaki, Evi); 71. Afterword (by Eysteinsson, Astradur); 72. Contributors; 73. Index