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RR 2017/164 Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism General editor Stephen Ross Routledge London 2016 - URL: www.rem.routledge.com/ Last visited April 2017 Contact publisher for pricing information
Attempting to confine interdisciplinary and global modernisms into a single reference work is a daunting effort, one that general editor Stephen Ross (2015), President of the Modernist Studies Association, has taken on with enthusiasm along with the handbook The Modernist World , which appears to serve as a companion volume in theme and even content. Eight of the articles in the latter appear in the former, for example, Irene Gammel and Cathy Waszczuk's chapter "A Rare Moment of Crisis": Modernist Intellectual Currents in Europe, is reprinted verbatim as "Modernism in Europe ". Over 1,500 academics, a number of whom appear to be new to the field, contributed signed articles to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM ). No doubt by intent, due to the inherent difficulty of grasping a concept that requires the over 1,000 articles in the REM , no definition of "Modernism" as an artistic or literary movement nor "modernism" as a cultural or critical understanding is given. It is left to the subject editors (and to the determined reader, as not all of the "overviews" appear at the top of the thematic lists) to discover what each section considers as "modern"...