Andrew J. Webber, The European Avant-Garde, Cultural History of Literature

Abstract This paper is intended as part of a larger research that aims to the realization of a monographic study dedicated to the Romanian translations of Dante's Inferno, from 19th to 21th century. It is a historical and critical approach, intended as an interdisciplinary study, to be placed at the crossing of disciplines like translation history, translation criticism, reception theory, history of literature, history of literary language, cultural history. The bibliographical selection we propose is complete with some methodological and deontological considerations of utility in the study of the history of translation.

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Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Orum (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 (Leiden: Brill, 2019)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum ◽

10.33112/nm.15.1.27 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Hoeren

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Nordic Countries ◽

Avant Garde ◽

History Of

A review of the book: Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Orum (eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 (Leiden: Brill, 2019)

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AVANT-GARDE AESTHETICS AND NATIONHOOD: THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY MEXICO (1920-1950) by Mary Kay Vaughan, Stephen E. Lewis and Rubén Gallo

Art History ◽

10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00686_7.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 644-648

Author(s):

Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Avant Garde ◽

History Of

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Ballet, Folk Dance, and the Cultural History of Interwar Modernism: The Ballet Job

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2014.0076 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 99-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rishona Zimring

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Folk Dance ◽

Avant Garde ◽

History Of

This essay singles out the Camargo Society's 1931 production of Job as an ‘emblematic’ modernist ballet. Whereas Sacre is emblematic of the pre-war crucible of the modernist avant-garde, Job is emblematic of the culturally reparative interwar years. To approach Job as an emblematic and innovative artwork of interwar modernism, we should locate its genealogy both in the radical, liberatory, experimentalist, and primitivist energies of Sacre, and in the accessibility and identificatory experiences of galvanizing forms of popular dance. Additionally, Job was influenced by the revival of traditionalist forms of participatory dance, which answered a newfound need for reassurance, restoration, and coherence. Job is the product of multiple dance influences in an interwar context, some, but not all, conventionally ‘modernist’. Our understanding of their importance to the cultural history of both the avant-garde and interwar modernism is enhanced if we trace them and appreciate Job's innovative and reparative meanings anew.

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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

10.1163/9789004388291 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Benedikt Hjartarson ◽

Andrea Kollnitz ◽

Per Stounbjerg ◽

Tania Ørum

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Nordic Countries ◽

Avant Garde ◽

History Of

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Portret Jako Jednostka Kulturowej Historii Literatury / The Portrait as a Unit of the Cultural History of Literature

Ruch Literacki ◽

10.2478/v10273-012-0051-x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Magdalena Popiel

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Literary History ◽

Pictorial Representation ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Culture Studies ◽

Visual Culture Studies ◽

History Of ◽

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ◽

History Of Literature

Summary This article is concerned with the role of the literary and the photographic portrait in the cultural history of literature. It argues that a new appraisal of the history of literature should take into account the prominent role of pictorial representation in contemporary culture. In practice, getting to grips with the multimediality of literary history means not only taking note of the interaction of various modes of communication but also adopting a nonlinear perspective, liberated from the ordering hegemony of language and narration, and based on the rhythm of Warburg’s formulas of pathos. The new approach should draw freely on inspirations from the history of art and anchor its discourse in the conceptual frameworks of anthropological aesthetics, Visual Culture Studies and case studies. One can expect that it would show its exceptional worth when applied to the study of multimedia artists like Stanisław Witkiewicz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

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Allergies, allegiances and authenticity: Bill T. Jones’s choreography for Broadway

Studies in Musical Theatre ◽

10.1386/smt.13.1.23_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 23-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ariel Nereson

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Cultural Production ◽

Critical Reception ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Artistic Production ◽

History Of

The critical reception of Bill T. Jones’s choreography for the Broadway stage reinvigorates debates about high and low cultural production and reveals persistent critical biases regarding the requirement of authenticity for non-white artists. Jones’s genre crossing participates in a cultural history of choreographers and dancers who dance(d) across concert and commercial stages; Jones’s work is further complicated by a rubric of authenticity as it contributes to both the mythology of the avant-garde and audience expectations of racialized cultural producers. This article argues that the reception of Jones’s choreography evidences the interdependence between blackness as authenticity and high/low dichotomies of artistic production, particularly those that contour dance reception. I foreground the multiple ways in which the formulation of blackness as authenticity supports Broadway’s commercial, often posited as ‘inauthentic’, aesthetics and aims.

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Euro-American Modernism as Local Refraction

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798710000566 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 299-306

Author(s):

Svend Erik Larsen

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

The Other ◽

Literary Modernism ◽

American Modernism ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Other Hand ◽

Complex Picture ◽

History Of ◽

The One

Modernism and everything modern have always been identified with the avant-garde. If something had not at a certain juncture in cultural history been avant-garde,eo ipsoit had also not been modern. But the history of literary Modernism shows a more complex picture. The various arrière-garde movements celebrating the regional, the traditional, the anti-urban aspects of life stood, on the one hand, in manifest contrast to the metropolitan and globally oriented Modernism, but were on the other hand also fostered by the same modernist wave from ca. 1850 onwards. I here discuss the dichotomies between the local and the global, and between the avant- and arrière-garde as constitutive of Modernism as a whole from its very beginnings.

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