Books in the European Cultures series

C.P. Snow's notion of a possible "third nation" in which the literary and the scientific culture interact has been explored in new ways by theorists on both sides of the divide. This text presents their theories. m

Frontmatter -- Sources and Influences -- Christine de Pizan and Classical Mythology. Some Examples from the "Mutation de Fortune" -- Christine de Pizan and Sacred History -- "Sequere me:" "Imitatio" dans la "Divine Comédie" et dans le "Livre du Chemin de long estude" -- Chivalry and the (En)Gendered Poetic Self. Petrarchan Models in the "Cent Balades" -- A Clerk In Name Only - A Clerk In All But Name. The Misogamous Tradition and "La Cité des Dames" -- New Perspectives and Questions -- Fondements et fondations de 1'écriture chez Christine de Pizan. Scènes de lecture et Scènes d'incarnation -- L'unité des "Cent Balades" -- Le manuscrit de Châtellerault. Un manuscrit perdu du VIIe livre de "La Mutacion de Fortune" -- Maternity and Paternity in "La Mutacion de Fortune" -- La tragédie thébaine dans "La Mutacion de Fortune" -- De l'art de la digression dans "Le Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage Roy Charles V" -- Mémoire - tradition - historiographie. Christine de Pizan et son "Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage Roy Charles V" -- Christine de Pizan et l'encyclopédisme scientifique -- Interdisciplinary Approaches -- Reflecting Heroes. Christine de Pizan and the Mirror Tradition -- Christine de Pizan analyste de la société -- Christine et les pauvres -- Insurgent Voices. Illuminated Versions of Christine de Pizan's "Le Livre du Duc des vrais amans" -- Christine de Pizan - le "moi" dans le texte et l'image -- Problems of Reception -- Christine de Pizan as Literary Mother. Woman's Authority and Subjectivity in "The Floure and the Leafe" and "The Assembly of Ladies" -- Illumination as Reception. Jean Miélot's Reworking of the "Epistre Othea" -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Illustrations

Frontmatter -- Preface/Préface -- Contents -- Terminological and Theoretical Issues/Questions terminologiques et théoretiques -- Modernism, Modernity, Avant-Garde: A Bilingual Introduction -- Les Avant-gardes d'ostentation et les avant-gardes de faire cognitif: Vers une description des langages transgressifs -- Modernity, Modernisme, Modernization: Variations on Modern Themes -- Modernisme ou Modernité? -- From Topos to Trope: Feminist Revisions of Modernism -- Anarchy as Modernist Aesthetic -- Créativité multilingue et modernité -- Modernist Literature/Littérature moderniste -- Naturalisme et modernité -- Fictitious History: From Decadence to Modernism -- Décadence et modernisme: "Les Lauriers sont coupés" d'Edouard Dujardin -- Karl Kraus and Modernism: A Reassessment -- Proust entre le modernisme et l'avant-garde -- Ronald A. Firbank: Fragrant Prayers, a Fury of Paint -- Temps et valeurs sur la Scène Viennoise: Hofmannsthal "Der Rosenkavalier" - Schnitzler "Der Grüne Kakadu" -- Between River and Rock: Landmarks in European Modernism -- L'Imaginaire des signes à l'aube du XXe siècle -- Writing and Modernism: Liquidation of the Self -- Le Complexe de Mercure -- Turning Around the Century: Modernism's Ends -- A Mode(rni)st Beginning? The Women of the "Athenaeum" 1890-1910 -- Young Lukács, the Sunday Circle, and Their Critique of Aestheticism -- Towards Techno-Poetics and Beyond: The Emergence of Modernist/Avant-garde Poetics out of Science and Media-technology -- Facing Modernism - German expressionism: Fulfillment or Escape? -- Between Symbolist Decline and the Rise of Newspeak: Mapping the Dynamics of the Russian Literary Avant-garde -- New Objectivity, Realism, and Avant-garde -- Mythe et Modernisme: étude sur Tristan -- The Meaning of 'Life' in European Aesthetics at the End of the Nineteenth Century, with Implications for a Useful Definition of Modernism -- The Secret Cities of Modernity: Topographies of Perception in Georges Rodenbach, Robert Walser, and Franz Hessel -- The Aestheticization of the City in Modernism -- Modernité de Hofmannsthal -- Interdisciplinary Approaches/Approches interdisciplinaires -- How Useful is the Term 'Modernism' for the Interdisciplinary Study of Twentieth-Century Art? -- Recherches poétiques et modernisme pictural chez Mallarmé pendant les années 1890 -- Naming the Modernist: The Ambiguities of Apollinaire -- Image de l'art Anglais 'Fin de Siècle' par le jeune Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- Salome and Ophelia: The Portrayal of Women in Art and Literature at the Turn of the Century -- Nouvelles proportions/nouvelles perspectives en esthétique: la transgression de l'horizon occidental au début du XXe siècle -- Figures and Things: The Gaze in d'Annunzio, Hofmannsthal, and Rilke -- Shifting Viewpoints: Auras, Images, and the Communication of Technology in the Literary/Cultural Journal from 1890-1910 -- Le Théâtre de Kandinsky face à l'interprétation -- L'Esthétique moderniste dans la musique de Stravinsky et dans la pensée de Jakobson -- Ironies of Modern/Postmodern Art: Duchamp, Magritte, Adami -- Le Brouillage du lisible pendant les années 1910-1920 -- Conclusion -- Panorama d'un siècle (1850-1950): Discordia Concors? -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- 661-662

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship -- Violence and Modernity -- The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning -- Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man's Land -- The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism -- From War Economy to "New Economy": World War I and the Conservative Debate about the 'other' Modernity in Germany -- Codes of War and Violence -- Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s -- Blitzkrieg: "God Stinnes" or the Depoliticization of the Sublime -- The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing -- Sexy Nazis and Daddy's Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s -- Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare -- Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War -- The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War -- Benn's Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn's Essays -- Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity -- Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare -- "A Murderous Carnival": German Artists in the First World War -- Arnold Zweig's War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day -- War and Novel: Alfred Döblin's "Wallenstein" and "November 1918" -- Violent Orders in Robert Musil's "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" and Thomas Bernhard's "Kalkwerk" -- "Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive": Gertrud Kolmar's Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution -- Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller's Work -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

This volume analyzes the conflation of "Jewishness" and satiric humor arising in conjunction with the authors M.G. Saphir, Ludwig Borne and Heinrich Heine, whose wit inspired considerable public controversy in the period 1820-1850.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cultural Change and Cultural Memory: The Principle of Hope in the Times of German Unifications / Pape, Walter -- History, Education, Language, and National Identity -- National History and National Identity in the New Germany / Sheehan, James J. -- The Franco-Prussian War and Unification in German History Schoolbooks / Kelly, Alfred -- Language and the Social Foundations of Radical Nationalism in the Wilhelmine Era / Chickering, Roger -- "Dann weg 'mit's Milletär' und wieder ein civiler Civilist": Theodor Fontane and the Wars of German Unification / Cornell, John S. -- Literature, Aesthetics, and Literary Market after 1870/71 -- "Hurra, Germania - mir graut vor dir": Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Freiligrath, Herwegh, and the German Unification of 1870/71 / Pape, Walter -- Friedrich Spielhagen - Critic of Bismarck's Empire / Neuhaus, Volker -- "Gibt es nicht Völker, in denen vergessen zu werden eine Ehre ist?": Raabe and German Unification / Meyer-Krentler, Eckhardt -- Literary Changes Compared - 1870/71 and 1990 -- Imagining the German Capital: Berlin Writers on the Two Unification Eras / Roper, Katherine -- Telling German History: Forms and Functions of the Historical Narrative Against the Background of the National Unifications / Fulda, Daniel -- 1990: The Priciple of Hope or: Nailed to the Cross of the Past? -- Another Piece of the Past / Reed, Terence James -- Intellectuals, Unification, and Political Change 1990: The Case of Christa Wolf / Schoeps, Karl-Heinz J. -- "Wir hausen im Prenzlauer Berg": On the Very Last Generation of GDR Poets / Brady, Philip -- The End of the Dream of the "Other Germany": The "German Question" in West German Letters / Bullivant, Keith -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Ekphrasis, Iconotexts, and Intermediality - the State(s) of the Art(s) / WAGNER, PETER -- Ekphrasis and Theories of Reading Visual Representations -- Iconolâtrie et iconoclastie de l'écriture libertine / DUBOST, JEAN-PIERRE -- Ekphrasis as Art Criticism: Diderot and Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoe" / FORT, BERNADETTE -- Ekphrasis and the Mimetic Crisis of Romanticism / BURWICK, FREDERICK -- Ecritures de l'image chez Théophile Gautier / MONTANDON, ALAIN -- Icono texts: The Eighteenth Century -- Watteau: The Aesthetics of Pleasure / CUSSET, CATHERINE -- Sterne and Fragonard: "The Escapades of Death" / OGÉE, FRÉDÉRIC -- The Harlot, Her Father, and the Parson: Representing and Interpreting Hogarth in the Eighteenth Century / PAULSON, RONALD -- La mise en scène de la table de travail: poétologie et épistémologie immanentes chez Guillaume-Thomas Raynal et Alexander von Humboldt / ETTE, OTTMAR -- Icono texts: The Nineteenth Century -- The Strategic Withdrawal from Ekphrasis in Jane Austen's Novels / SABOR, PETER -- Appropriating Botticelli: English Approaches 1860-1890 / LOTTES, WOLFGANG -- Entering the Museum of Words: Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Twentieth-Century Ekphrasis / HEFFERNAN, JAMES A. W. -- Oscar Wilde's "Impression du matin" - an Intermedial Reading / WAGNER, PETER -- Iconotexts: Caricature -- Text as Design in Gillray's Caricature / BINDMAN, DAVID -- The Battle of the Signs: Robert Crumb's Visual Reading of James Boswell's "London Journal" / PAPE, WALTER -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Colour Plates -- Backmatter

This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.