The first volume of the new series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The articles seek to bring out the complexity of the European avant-garde and modernism by relating it to Europe s intricate history, multiculturalism and multilingualism; they aim to inquire into the divergent cultural views on Europe taking shape in avant-garde and modernist practices and chart a composite image of the other Europe that have emerged from the avant-garde and experimental modernism.
Language
English
Pages
534
Format
Unknown Binding
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Release
October 29, 2009
ISBN
3111738361
ISBN 13
9783111738369
Europa! Europa?: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent
The first volume of the new series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. It combines interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. The articles seek to bring out the complexity of the European avant-garde and modernism by relating it to Europe s intricate history, multiculturalism and multilingualism; they aim to inquire into the divergent cultural views on Europe taking shape in avant-garde and modernist practices and chart a composite image of the other Europe that have emerged from the avant-garde and experimental modernism.