This Dictionary collects, categorises and intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments- individual and collective - that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, their modernist newness, and their historical longevity

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Entries
• Introduction
• A
• Abstraction
• Absurd
• Acéphale
• Aestheticism
• Agitprop
• Aleatorism
• Alienation
• Allusion
• Anarchism
• Androgyny
• Anthropology
• Apollonian
• Arrière-garde
• Art Nouveau
• L'art pour l'art
• Arts and Crafts
• Atonality
• Aura
• Automaton
• Autonomy
• Avant-garde
• B
• Base materialism
• Bauhaus
• Beat Generation
• Bergsonism
• Biomechanics
• Black Mountain College
• Bloomsbury Group
• Bolshevism
• British Poetry Revival
• Bureaucracy
• C
• Cabaret
• Cadavre exquis
• Calligram
• Celtic Twilight
• Censorship
• Chance
• Charisma
• Chronophotography
• Chronotope
• Cinema
• Circus
• Clinamen
• Collage
• Collège de sociologie
• Colonialism
• Commitment
• Communism
• Concrete poetry
• Confessional poetry
• Constructivism
• Consumption
• Cosmopolitanism
• Critique
• Crowd
• Cruelty (Theatre of)
• Cubism
• Cubo-Futurism
• Culture Industry
• Cut-up
• D
• Dada
• Dance
• Dandy
• Dasein
• De Stijl
• Death drive
• Decadence
• Degeneration
• Dionysian
• Dissonance
• Dream
• E
• Eccentrism
• Edwardians, The
• Ego-Futurism
• Egoism
• Elegy
• Empathy
• Empire
• Entartete Kunst
• Epic Theatre
• Epiphany
• Estrangement
• Eugenics
• Event
• Everyday
• Exile
• Experiment
• Expressionism
• F
• Fabianism
• Fauvism
• Feminism
• Fin de siècle
• Flâneur
• Fordism
• Formalism
• Fourth dimension
• Fragmentation
• Frankfurt School, The
• Free indirect style
• Free Verse
• Functionalism
• Futurism
• G
• Georgians, The
• Gesamtkunstwerk
• Gestus
• Global modernisms
• Gramophone
• Gyres
• H
• Habit
• Haiku
• Harlem Renaissance, The
• Hellenism
• High modernism
• History
• Hysteria
• I
• Illness
• Imagism
• Impersonality
• Impressionism
• Interior monologue
• Isms
• J
• Jazz
• Jazz Age
• K
• Kino-Eye
• Kitsch
• Kulchur
• L
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
• Late modernism
• Lettrism
• Little magazines
• Living Newspaper
• Logopoeia
• M
• Machine
• Madeleine
• Manifesto
• Marionette, The
• Marxism
• Mass Culture
• Mass Observation
• Mathematics
• Mean Time
• Melancholia
• Melopoeia
• Memory
• Metropolis
• Mimesis
• Modernity
• Monochrome
• Montage
• Mother Right
• Mythical method
• Mythopoeia
• N
• Nationalism
• Naturalism
• Négritude
• Neo-Pagans, The
• Neo-primitivism
• Neo-romanticism
• New Apocalypse, The
• New Criticism
• New Negro, The
• New Objectivity
• New Woman, The
• New York School, The
• Newspapers
• Nihilism
• Noh Theatre
• O
• Objective correlative
• Objectivism
• October Circle, The
• Oedipus Complex
• Opera
• Orientalism
• Ornament
• OULIPO
• P
• Paideuma
• Parataxis
• ’Pataphysics
• P.E.N.
• Personal Landscape
• Phanopoeia
• Photomontage
• Picaresque
• Pleasure principle
• Post-Impressionism
• Postmodernism
• Pragmatism
• Primitivism
• Projective Verse
• Proletkult
• Psychoanalysis
• Q
• Quantum mechanics
• R
• Race
• Rayonism
• Readymade
• Realism
• Reification
• Relativity
• Revolution
• Ritual
• Roman-fleuve
• Romanticism vs Classicism
• S
• Sapphic modernism
• Science Fiction
• Secession
• Semiology/Semiotics
• Serialism
• Sexuality
• Shell shock
• Significant form
• Silence
• Socialist Realism
• Sound poetry
• Southern Agrarians
• Speed
• Spiritualism
• Spleen
• Statelessness
• Stream of consciousness
• Structuralism
• Suffrage movement
• Suprematism
• Surrealism
• Syllabic verse
• Symbolism
• T
• Taboo
• Taylorism
• Technology
• Theory
• Theosophy
• Totem
• Tradition
• Translation
• Turn
• U
• Uncanny, The
• Uranianism
• Utopia
• V
• Verfremdungseffekt
• Vorticism
• W
• Wagnerism
• War
• Woman Question
• Word and image
• Working Class
• World's Fair, The
• Z
• Zaum
• Notes on Contributors