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Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms

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Editors:
  1. Katia Pizzi

    1. Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, London, UK

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  2. Roberta Gefter Wondrich

    1. Department of Humanities, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  • Explores modernist movements from regions regarded as peripheral to global modernism
  • Contributes to scholarship on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies
  • Highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Katia Pizzi
    Pages 1-11

  3. Modernism and Peripherality: Theoretical Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity

      • Benita Parry
      Pages 15-41

    3. What is Peripheral about Peripheral Modernisms?

      • Maria-Irene Ramalho-Santos
      Pages 43-57

  4. Liminality in the ‘Semi-peripheries’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. The Literature of Trieste and the Perils of Peripherality

      • Katia Pizzi
      Pages 61-76

    3. “From the Periphery of the Metropolis”: On Joyce’s Modern/ist Irish Peripherealities

      • Roberta Gefter Wondrich
      Pages 77-98

    4. Do Australian Modernisms Strike Back? Still Harping on ‘Margins’

      • Marilena Parlati
      Pages 99-118

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-200
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About this book

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, London, UK

    Katia Pizzi

  • Department of Humanities, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Roberta Gefter Wondrich

About the editors

​Katia Pizzi is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, UK. She has published extensively on the literary culture, memory and history of cities, especially the volumes The Literary Identities of European Cities (2011), Trieste: italianità, triestinità e male di frontiera (2007) and A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste (2001). Pizzi’s most recent books include Italian Futurism and the Machine (2019), a monograph focusing on the cultural relationships between Modernism and industrial technology, including ‘peripheral’ areas. Pizzi’s current research interests include urban Modernism, the Cold War, future cities and cultural memory. Since 2020 Pizzi has been Director of the Italian Cultural Institute London, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Roberta GefterWondrich is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Trieste, Italy, and general editor of Prospero, Rivista di letterature e culture straniere – A Journal of foreign literatures and cultures. She specialises in the field of contemporary Irish fiction, on which she has written a book  and many articles. Her field of interests includes the contemporary English and Irish novel, neo-Victorianism, biofiction, James Joyce, J. M. Coetzee, thing theory and sea narratives. She is currently working on a monograph on the cultural object in contemporary fiction in English.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms

  • Editors: Katia Pizzi, Roberta Gefter Wondrich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35546-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35545-5Published: 03 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35548-6Due: 03 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35546-2Published: 02 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature

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