Preface: PMC at 20

Amiran, Eyal

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“…Postmodernity thus seeks in some way to challenge the ideological mental image of modernity, but simultaneously affirms it, by constituting itself as more appositely 'modern' than previous interpretations of modernity. In postmodern discourses, then, modernism cannot simply be the aesthetic affirmation of the experience of modernity, because postmodernism, a reflexive attitude as well as a 'cultural and intellectual time' 61 is just as expressive of it. With Osborne again, It is the irreducible doubling of a reflexive concept of modernity as something which has happened, yet continues to happen -ever new but always, in its newness, the same -that the identity and the difference of the 'modern' and the 'postmodern' plays itself out at the most abstract level of the formal determinations of time.…”

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The And of Modernism: On New Periodizations

Gildea¹,

Wylot²

2019

Modernist Cultures

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The study of literary modernism is in the ascendant in the academy. From alternate modernisms, to neomodernisms, to metamodernism and global modernisms, modernism scholarship has evolved through a configuration of modernism into a cross-cultural and inter-generational aesthetic practice. This article critically examines the periodizing logic implicit in this new modernism scholarship, specifically as it pertains to the study of what is loosely called ‘neomodernism’, which we suggest presents a notable development in literary history for accounts of contemporary fiction and postmodern culture. We are principally interested in a recent trend we observe in modernism literary criticism concerning the futurization of the object (literary modernism), and of critical work thereupon. This work, which specifically addresses developments in contemporary Western Anglophone literature, seeks to extend the project of modernism (sometimes called its ‘promise’) into the present, understanding it as the principal agency in literary distinction and merit. We examine this criticism through a series of case studies, and discern three interconnecting strands in neomodernist criticism – three ways of futurizing modernism, and of self-futurizing modernism criticism.

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