Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture / (Record no. 22172)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789004720701 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789004519862 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9789004720701 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
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| Classification number | PN33 |
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| Classification number | 809 |
| Edition information | 23 |
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| Title | Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Thorsten Carstensen, Mattias Pirholt. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Leiden ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Brill, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025. |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2025 |
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| Series statement | Literary Modernism ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 9 |
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| Series statement | Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 |
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| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Title | List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture -- Thorsten Carstensen and Mattias Pirholt -- Part 1 -- The Self -- 1 The Freedom to Become: Henri Bergson’s Recovery of the Unquantified Self -- Thomas Sutherland -- 2 Making the Violin Happy: A Posthumanist Analysis of the Failure of Self-Optimization in Selma Lagerlöf’s The Story of a Country House -- Ann-Sofie Lönngren -- 3 Policing the Self in Malcolm Lowry’s Fiction -- Peter Childs -- Part 2 -- Emotions and Nerves -- 4 “To Win Back the Right to Great Affects!” Nietzsche, Vitalism and Self-Optimization -- Paul Bishop -- 5 Knut Hamsun, America, and Walt Whitman: On the Use of Literary Criticism as Self-Optimization -- Eirik Vassenden -- 6 William and Henry James, the Neurasthenic Generation, and the Quest for Illness -- Wenwen Guo -- 7 Paul Lasker-Schüler and the Troubled Legacy of “Crip Pedagogy” at the Odenwaldschule -- Gunther Martens -- Part 3 -- Body and Gender -- 8 Naked Triumphs and National Renewal: Heinrich Pudor and the German Life Reform Movement -- Thorsten Carstensen -- 9 Perfect Bodies: Physical Culture and Self-Optimization in the United States Around 1900 -- Simon Wendt -- 10 “Perfection of the Life, or of the Work”: W.B. Yeats and the Struggle for Self-Optimization -- Peter Liebregts -- 11 The Tragedy of a Woman: Alma Karlin and the Fragmented Self -- Nicole Perry -- 12 Gender and Self-Optimization in Irmgard Keun’s Gilgi. Eine von uns and Das kunstseidene Mädchen -- Brangwen Stone -- Part 4 -- The Technology of Self-Optimization -- 13 Planning for Success: Gustav Großmann’s Method of Self-Rationalization as an Economic Theory of Behavior -- Ralph Köhnen -- 14 Henry Parland’s Cyborgs: The Problematic Perfection of Man -- Mattias Pirholt -- 15 Anthropotechnik ? Ernst Jünger’s Organic Constructions, Self-Optimization and Modernity -- Nicholas Saul -- 16 Neues Bauen, Neues Wohnen: Self-Optimization through Better Architecture -- Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Our contemporary society is obsessed with the idea of self-optimization, a concept that implies the need to constantly work on improving oneself and one’s appearance. The roots of postmodern self-optimization, however, lie in the cultural industries that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its equally profound and transient interest in new forms of expression, new ways of life, and new technologies, modernism thoroughly and critically embraced the idea of the self as something that can be created and recreated, either in accordance with or in contradiction to social norms. This book explores strategies of self-optimization developed in modernist literature and culture. In doing so, it offers a panoramic view of an often-overlooked aspect of European and North American modernity that anticipates our current postmodern crisis of the self. |
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| Language note | English |
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| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature and Cultural Studies. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carstensen, Thorsten, |
| Relator term | editor. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pirholt, Mattias, |
| Relator term | editor. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Title | Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789004519862 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Literary Modernism ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 9. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004720701">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004720701</a> |
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