The Turn of the Century/Le tournant du siècle: Modernism and Modernity in Literature and the Arts/Le modernisme et la modernité dans la littérature et les arts 3

Modernism and modernity are key-concepts for an understanding of twentieth-century culture, art and literature. Because of their indistinctness and the ambiguous use that is beeing made of these terms in comparist discussions, they create confusion rather than anything else. Starting from this terminological vagueness, this book aims to confront views and analyses so as to elucidate and clarify the concepts in question. These issues are addressed by some of the most important critics working in this field: Roger Bauer, Matei Calinescu, Yves Chevrel, Wladimir Krysinsky, Jean Weisgerber, Ulrich Weisstein. The contributions range from terminological exposes to careful studies of a selection of modern artists, and treat writers ranging from canonical (Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Madelstam, Eliot, Apollinaire, Proust, Strawinsky, Kandinsky) to the marginal nearly forgotten Ronald Firbank. Themes as the flaneur, Tristan, the city, anarchism, technology in modernims are analysed.

This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of grammaticalization from the Old High German period onwards.

Based on empirical corpus research, the study investigates the degree of grammaticalization of each single evidential construction and the make-up of the present-day system as well as the diachronic stages that lead to the present state. The book focuses on three main issues. First, it is concerned with the general notion of evidentiality, its deictic character, and with the interrelations between the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. Second, the book presents the results of the synchronic corpus-based analysis of the German evidential periphrastic constructions werden 'become' + infinitive, scheinen 'seem', drohen 'threaten', versprechen 'promise' + zu 'to'- infinitive, which constitute a paradigm for coding evidentiality in Present Day German. Third, the diachronic development of the evidential constructions is represented as a complex grammaticalization process, interacting with the development of modal constructions and leading to a highly differentiated category of modal and evidential distinctions in the grammar of German.

Edited By Christian Berg, Frank Durieux, And Geert Lernout. English And French. Rewritten Versions Of Contributions To ... An International Conference Held At The University Of Antwerp In May 1992--preface. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [583]-632) And Index. On seeing this book, some of the readers may have raised the somewhat disparaging objection that this was to be the umpteenth volume, one in an ap-parently endless series, devoted to modernism and the avant-garde. No detailed description available for'The Turn of the Century/Le tournant du siècle'.