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Euro-American Modernism as Local Refraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2011

Svend Erik Larsen
Svend Erik Larsen*
Affiliation:
Department of Aesthetic Studies, Section of Comparative Literature, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 139, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. E-mail: litsel@hum.au.dk
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Abstract

Modernism and everything modern have always been identified with the avant-garde. If something had not at a certain juncture in cultural history been avant-garde, eo ipso it had also not been modern. But the history of literary Modernism shows a more complex picture. The various arrière-garde movements celebrating the regional, the traditional, the anti-urban aspects of life stood, on the one hand, in manifest contrast to the metropolitan and globally oriented Modernism, but were on the other hand also fostered by the same modernist wave from ca. 1850 onwards. I here discuss the dichotomies between the local and the global, and between the avant- and arrière-garde as constitutive of Modernism as a whole from its very beginnings.

Type
Focus: Avant-garde/Arriere-garde
Information
European Review , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 14 April 2011 , pp. 299 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2011

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