The 47th issue of the Echinox Journal Integrated Modernisms edited by Amalia Cotoi, Francesca Caraceni, Anna Dijkstra, Anca Chiorean, Anandita Pan is out; The volume critically contextualizes current discussions on ‘New Modernisms’ from various geopolitical perspectives and temporalities, while also questioning recent significant attempts to theorize what is modern in today’s literary and cultural contemporaneity.

Introduction

Reimagining Modernist Methodologies

Jamie Stephenson, Hermeneutics of ‘Auditioning’: Contemporising Tensions Between ‘Modernity’ and ‘Modernism’ through a Poetics of Resonance

Rahma Khazam, From Essence to Flat Ontology: Recontextualizing Modernist Thought for the Present

Anna Dijkstra, Epistemological Violence between Affect and Aesthetic: Rationalist Rhetoric in the Novel of Ideas

Transnational Modernisms

Izabela Sobczak, Joseph Conrad, Ewa Kuryluk and “the places of transition”. Transnational Modernism in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing

Ilinca Pelea, Transnational Paradigms of Modernist Pictorial Memory: Carpaccio, Vermeer and Narrative Structure in Proust’s Search

Somjyoti Mridha, “…and the twentieth century took over from the sixteenth”: Literary Modernism and the Colonial World in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Aathira Peediakaparambil Somasundaran, Between Modernism and Tradition: Beirut’s Poetry and Literature in Transformation

Amalia Cotoi, Modernist Literature and Embodied Mind. Introspection, Body, and Environment

Transmediality

Ioana Șerban, The New as the Surround System of Interiority in Contemporary Art Exhibitions. Modernism and Contemporaneity in the Works of Elmgreen & Dragset

Alina Gabriela Mihalache, Ștefan Firică, Deterritorializing Theatre. Habima and the Making of the Modern Stage Language

Georgios Katsantonis, From the Geographical Dimension to the Ecological Perspective in Pasolini’s Literature and Film

Shiyi Zhu, Pictorial Modernism(s) in An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Context

Radu Toderici, Tactical Modernism: Romanian Cinema of the 1960s and the Disputed Modernist Aesthetics

Local Modern(ism)s

Rui Sousa, Mário Cesariny’s Perspective on Portuguese and International Surrealism: Dialogue and Distinction

Fernando de Moraes Gebra, Orpheu from the Inside: a Historiographical Review of the Portuguese Modernism

Frederico van Erven Cabala, Figures of the Modern in Brazilian Theater

Anca Chiorean, Putting Bodies to Work – Bodies of Texts and Bodies of Readers Operating at a Whopping 75 Horsepower

The New Politics of -isms

Alex Ciorogar, The 6th Face of Modernity – Postmilenial Romanian Poetry and Metamodernism

Bogdan Vișan, The Worldedness of Postmodernism in the Romanian Literary Field: A Travelling Concept

Bărboiu Arina-Mihaela, Mapping Metamodernism from East to West

Horațiu Tohătan, Nihilistic Network: Musil, Kundera and Houellebecq

Historical Modernist Engagements

Boyarkina Iren, Ulysses through the Prism of Natural Sciences

Gabriela Glăvan, The Unwritten Sylvia Plath Biographies

Andrea Olah, Reinterpretation of Art Utopias Seeking a Non-Functional Determination of the New Man and the New Art: Marinetti’s Tactilism and Kassák’s Art-utopia

Smaranda Ștefanovici, Georgeta Matei, Modernist Engagements in Postcolonial Literature

Library Survey

Book Reviews