Robert Buch, University of New South Wales, AustraliaĢ. The Absolute and the Impossible Work: Franz Kafka’s “The Burrow” John Attridge, University of New South Wales, Australiaġ.
Table of contents An Introduction to Modernist Work Modernist Work investigates an important but relatively neglected topic in modernist studies, demonstrating the central relevance of the concept of “work” to a diverse selection of writers and artists and opening up pathways for future research. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women’s work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy.
Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its aesthetic, theoretical, historical and political dimensions. We are pleased to announce the publication of a volume of essays drawn from 2016’s AMSN3 conference: Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of ArtĮdited by John Attridge & Helen Rydstrand
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