Cross-Channel Modernisms

Claire Davison; Derek Ryan; Jane A. Goldman

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Cross-Channel Modernisms

Claire Davison , Derek Ryan and Jane A. Goldman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474441896

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Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond

Offers cutting-edge explorations of different aspects of artistic exchange between Britain and France, written by experts on both sides of the Channel
Provides original close readings of canonical and marginalised modernist texts
Opens up new conceptual paradigms by probing multiple meanings related to ‘crossing’ and ‘channelling’ modernism
Organises chapters around three key themes of ‘translating’, ‘fashioning’, ‘mediating’ that intervene in the new modernist studies

Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as ‘a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure’, in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'la Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms ‘Translating’, ‘Fashioning’ and ‘Mediating’, this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchanges in Britain, France and beyond, and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of ‘crossings’ and ‘channels’ through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent, international context.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Cross-Channel (Transmanche) Modernisms Claire Davison, Jane Goldman and Derek Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Interlude: Translating Derek Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 1 On Unknowing French? Rhythm and Le Rythme on a Cross-Channel Exchange Claire Davison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2 Impressions of Translation: Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolitan Literary Crossings Max Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 3 Sydney Schiff and Marcel Proust: Table-talk, Tribute, Translation Emily Eells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Interlude: Fashioning Claire Davison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 4 Cross-Channel Modernisms and the Vicissitudes of a Laughing Torso: Nina Hamnett, Artist, Bohemian and Writer in London and Paris Jane Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Chapter 5 Jean Rhys’s comédie anglaise Vassiliki Kolocotroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 6 Betray to Become: Departure in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Naomi Toth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Interlude: Mediating Jane Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7 Close Up and Cross-Channel Cinema Culture Laura Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Chapter 8 Debussy at the Omega Workshops Charlotte de Mille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 9 Across the Other Channel: Elizabeth Bowen and Modernist Mediation Lauren Elkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Coda: ‘You, who cross the Channel’: Virginia Woolf, Departures and the Spectro-Aesthetics of Mo Patrizia A. Muscogiuri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 15 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474441896