Modernism and Unreadability
Questioning “Modernism and Unreadability” means exploring Modernism from the perspective of one of its most problematic effects: unreadability. Modernism is approached through the lens of texts known to be particularly resistant to interpretation-“ borderline” modernist texts which fall de facto under the category of the unreadable, i.e., texts which need to be “unraveled” (Barthes) rather than deciphered. Those texts, now part of the literary canon, raise problems of deciphering/comprehension w...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-406-3
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.13580
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2011
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-84269-929-1
Nombre de pages : 271
Isabelle Alfandary et Axel Nesme
IntroductionChristine Savinel
Late Unreadability in George Oppen´s PoetryChristophe Lamiot Enos
Laynie Browne´s Original Presence, her Relationship to BooksMathieu Duplay
“At the Still Point:” Illegibility and the Poetics of Non-Reading in the Novels of David Markson and Malcolm LowryMichael Schmidt
Belonging and Unreadability in Djuna Barnes´s NightwoodMonica Latham
Exploring the Limits of Unreadability: Virginia Woolf ´s Melymbrosia and The Voyage OutMarie-Dominique Garnier
IllIsible: Reading through Thick and Thin Eliot, Duchamp, Joyce, DerridaAnne Reynes-Delobel
Unreadability in Question(s): the Reception of “Work in Progress” in transition Magazine (1927–38)Vincent Broqua
Notes on Reading Repetition in Stein and BeckettQuestioning “Modernism and Unreadability” means exploring Modernism from the perspective of one of its most problematic effects: unreadability. Modernism is approached through the lens of texts known to be particularly resistant to interpretation-“ borderline” modernist texts which fall de facto under the category of the unreadable, i.e., texts which need to be “unraveled” (Barthes) rather than deciphered. Those texts, now part of the literary canon, raise problems of deciphering/comprehension which defer and displace the question of interpretation. From Stein to Eliot, several canonical texts foil reading, articulation, and commentary. Given its intensity, we need to ask ourselves to what extent modernist unreadability defines a unique historical moment. This latter hypothesis underwrites a polemical notion of literary history as a succession of breaks made manifest by the emergence of radically new paradigms-such as unreadability- through which Modernist writings question literariness from the angle of literalness, and challenge literature-both as a practice and as a historical institution-to account for itself, to justify its procedures and its tacitly or implicitly held beliefs, to deconstruct the very meaning of writing and reading.
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