The New Modernist Studies

• Main Authors: Douglas Mao, Rebecca Walkowitz
• Format: Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne WFPiK UAM; Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 2014-01-01
• Series: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Subjects: modernism, modernist studies, transnationality, mass media
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/1146

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">The main task of this article is to describe the new situation of modernist studies at the turn of the 20th century and an attempt to position this description in a broader history of criticism of modernism in art. The transformations in the studies into modernist literature have been characterized here in three aspects: expanding the time frame (going beyond the basic period of modernism from the end of the 19th c. until 1930s), spatial dimension (abandonment of a privileged position of research into West European and American modernism in favour of a transnational perspective) and vertical dimension (connected with the necessity to rethink the relationship high art-low art, and also the influence of mass </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">media upon modernist literature).</span></p>