1922: Literature, Culture, Politics

Synopsis

1922: Literature, Culture, Politics Examines Key Aspects Of Culture And History In 1922, A Year Made Famous By The Publication Of Several Modernist Masterpieces, Such As T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land And James Joyce's Ulysses. Individual Chapters Written By Leading Scholars Offer New Contexts For The Year's Significant Works Of Art, Philosophy, Politics, And Literature. 1922 Also Analyzes Both The Political And Intellectual Forces That Shaped The Cultural Interactions Of That Privileged Moment. Although This Volume Takes Post-world War I Europe As Its Chief Focus, American Artists And Authors Also Receive Thoughtful Consideration. In Its Multiplicity Of Views, 1922 Challenges Misconceptions About The 'lost Generation' Of Cultural Pilgrims Who Flocked To Paris And Berlin In The 1920s, Thus Stressing The Wider Influence Of That Momentous Year. Uncanny Semblables And Serendipitous Publications: T. S. Eliot's The Criterion And The Waste Land And James Joyce's Ulysses / Gabrielle Mcintire -- Rilke's Duino Elegies And Sonnets To Orpheus / Judith Ryan -- Odd Encounters: From Marcel Proust's Sodome Et Gomorrhe To Albert Cohen's Projections Ou Après-minuit à Genève / Andre Benhaïm -- Castle Logic: Hints In Kafka's Novel / Paul North -- In Or About 1922: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, And Modern Fiction / Angeliki Spiropoulou -- Anglophones In Paris: Gertrude Stein And The Aesthetics Of Collaboration / Genevieve Abravanel -- Circa 1922: Art, Technology, And The Activated Beholder / Christine Poggi -- Dada, Futurism, And Raymond Roussel / Jonathan P. Eburne -- The Beginning And The End: The Formalist Paradigm In Literary Study / Alastair Renfrew -- Hispanic Watershed: 1922 In Latin America / Michelle Clayton -- Restoration Dramas: Hofmannsthal's The Great World Theater Of Salzburg And Cocteau's Antigone / Matt Wilson Smith -- Postwar New Feminisms: May Sinclair And Colette / Elizabeth A. Mosimann -- Durée Et Simultanéité And Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: Time And Logic In 1922 / Gregg Lambert -- Marxism In Revolution: Georg Lukács's History And Class Consciousness And Karl Korsch's Marxism And Philosophy / Adam Takács -- Principles Of Relativity: Whitehead Versus Russell / Steven Meyer -- Modernist Political Theologies: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology (1922) And Walter Benjamin's Critique Of Violence (1921) / Tracy Mcnulty -- Frazer's The Golden Bough And Malinowski's Argonauts Of The Western Pacific: Anthropology In 1922 / Marc Manganaro. Edited By Jean-michel Rabaté, University Of Pennsylvania. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.