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European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine

Harding, J.

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Modernism is synonymous with cosmopolitanism. In their groundbreaking collection of essays, Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane argued: “Conspicuous in the age of Modernism is an unprecedented acceleration in the intellectual traffic between nations . . . in this climate, international exchanges and unacknowledged borrowings flourished.” Successive waves of transnational avant-garde movements—symbolism, expressionism, cubism, Futurism, Dada, surrealism, constructivism— swept across Europe. In Extraterritorial (1972), George Steiner directed attention to the polyglot milieu of twentieth-century literature shaped by exile and expatriation, and, following the upheavals occasioned by two world wars, the displacement of millions of refugees. Steiner’s attention to a modern multilingualism as a condition of “extraterritoriality” indicates that concepts like “modernism” may be more culture-bound and stubbornly resistant to translation than we think.

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Harding, J. (2015). European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine. Modernism/modernity, 22(4), 811-820. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2015.0063

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 14, 2015
Publication Date Nov 1, 2015
Deposit Date Jan 14, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jan 24, 2017
Journal Modernism/modernity
Print ISSN 1080-6601
Electronic ISSN 1080-6601
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 22
Issue 4
Pages 811-820
DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2015.0063
Publisher URL http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v022/22.4.harding.pdf

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Copyright © 2015 by Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Modernism/modernity 22:4 (2015), 811-820. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.




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