Historical Modernisms : Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Paperback)

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Foreword: Modernism, time and history - Terry Eagleton Historical modernisms: Introduction - Jean-Michel Rabate and Angeliki Spiropoulou Part I Historicizing modernism 1 'The Last Witnesses': Autobiography and history in the 1930s - Laura Marcus 2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms - Andrew Thacker 3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster's failed - Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni 4 'Well now that's done: And I'm glad it's over': Modernism, history and the future - Max Saunders 5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White - Angeliki Spiropoulou Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes 6 Medium-New - Tyrus Miller 7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes - Sascha Bru 8 Clement Greenberg's modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? - Rahma Khazam 9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic - Alexandra Bickley Trott 10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau - Rachel Silveri 11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle's transforming praxis - Sanja Bahun Bibliography 234 Index 253