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Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Susan Stanford Friedman
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Description for Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 472 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 772.
Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the ... Read more
Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modernist Latitudes
Condition
New
Weight
817g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170901
SKU
V9780231170901
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About Susan Stanford Friedman
Susan Stanford Friedman is the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies, the Hilldale Professor of the Humanities, and director for the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.; Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity; H.D.'s Fiction; and Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, ... Read more
Reviews for Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
A brave, challenging, and incredibly stimulating account of where modernist studies might go next. This book should be read and debated widely. In many ways it turns the 'new' of modernism into the 'now.' A book that emphatically, and in the very best possible way, provokes.
Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms In ... Read more
Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms In ... Read more