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Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art de Prof John Attridge

Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art

Editat de Prof John Attridge, Dr. Helen Rydstrand
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iul 2019
Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its aesthetic, theoretical, historical and political dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy. Modernist Work investigates an important but relatively neglected topic in modernist studies, demonstrating the central relevance of the concept of "work" to a diverse selection of writers and artists and opening up pathways for future research.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501344015
ISBN-10: 1501344013
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Situates the concept of "work" as a modernist keyword, which pivots between the vexed modernist category of the work of art and the more general history of 20th-century work

Notă biografică

John Attridge is Senior Lecturer in English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Helen Rydstrand received her PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2016. Her first book, Rhythmic Modernism: Mimesis and the Short Story, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsAn Introduction to Modernist Work John Attridge, University of New South Wales, AustraliaI The Work of Art 1. The Absolute and the Impossible Work: Franz Kafka's "The Burrow"Robert Buch, University of New South Wales, Australia2. Autonomy, Difficulty, and the Work of Literature in Wyndham Lewis's Tarr and André Gide's The CounterfeitersEmmett Stinson, University of Newcastle, Australia 3. Mimesis and the Task of the Writer for Lawrence and WoolfHelen Rydstrand, University of New South Wales, Australia II Artistic Labor4. Richard Strauss at Work in His WorksDavid Larkin, University of Sydney, Australia5. Stein's Immaterial LaborsKristin Grogan, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK6. Trace and Facture: Legacies of the "Ready-made" in Contemporary South African ArtAlison Kearney, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa III Representing Work and Workers 7. Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: Work, Inheritance, and Desert in the Modernist Novel Evelyn Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong 8. Magic, Modernity, and Women at WorkCaroline Webb, University of Newcastle, Australia 9. The Disclosure of Work in the Poetry of Ron SillimanChristopher Oakey, University of New South Wales, Australia IV Class Identity and Class Conflict 10. Swedish Social Modernism: The Inward and Outward Turn in Eyvind Johnson's Stad i ljusNiklas Salmose, Linnaeus University, Sweden 11. Percussion and Repercussion: The Haitian Revolution as Worker Uprising in Guy Endore's Babouk (1934) and C. L. R. James's Black Jacobins (1938) Sascha Morrell, Monash University, Australia 12. Domestic Holocaust: Michael Haneke's Intractable Class WarPaul Sheehan, Macquarie University, Australia Afterword: Work, Modernism, and Thinking Through the AestheticMorag Shiach, Queen Mary University of London, UKIndex

Recenzii

The exemplary introduction ... effortlessly prepares the reader for the component essays - an impressive achievement, considering the range of approaches to work taken by the contributors. Essays are ordered thoughtfully, shading from those taking the most figurative sense of the term (concerning aesthetics or restricted to artistic labour alone) to those with its most material, politically energized connotations (concerning industrialism and class hierarchies).
Building on a productive pun on the concept of 'work,' Modernist Work explores the intersection between the changing organization of labor practices at the turn of the 20th century and shifts in the conception of the modernist work of art. This stimulating and wide-ranging collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the social and material transformations of work that underpin, enter into, and are contested by modernist aesthetic practice.
Modernist Work does what its title promises and puts the issue of labor back at the center of modernism studies. This enticing and stimulating collection of essays, bookended by a thorough introduction by John Attridge and a provocative afterword by Morag Shiach, tackles artistic labor and the work of art, but it also studies the modernist representation of labor(ers) and modernism's vexed relation to class. This book will be invaluable reading to all those interested in the work, and play, of modernism.
Modernist Work provides an important, incisive, and theoretically engaging corrective to the narrow periodization and post-critical hoopla afoot in modernist studies. The collection shows that work--in all its different senses, across many disciplines, engaged from a range of perspectives--is a key word for unlocking and understanding modernism's riddled aesthetic legacies.