Introductory video

It has often been argued that so-called “high” modernist and avant-garde writers were perhaps the first to investigate in detail the problems of time and temporality. As a result, reflection on both issues in modernism and avant-garde studies abounds. To date, however, we lack a systematic understanding of the different forms and functions of time and temporality in the writing from the period. It is this lacuna the present conference set out to fill. The conference gathered general as well as innovative case-based considerations of modernist and avant-garde writing and practices. By analysing in-depth how modernist and avant-garde writing reflected on time and change, the conference ultimately aimed to explore the ramifications of these ideas for the literary historiography of the period.

The entire conference was filmed and can be revisited perpetually here.

The conference took place in September 2013 in Leuven.

Poster