Descripción
Modernist belongings
This volume breaks away from traditional readings of literary modernism in English, offering a fresh and fascinating interpretation. Rather than viewing modernism solely as a movement of rupture and isolation, it explores its persistent search for community, integration, and belonging.
Through rigorous yet accessible essays, the book examines how major figures like Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, and E.E. Cummings, as well as seemingly peripheral authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, articulate a reactive need for belonging, even as they rebel against the constraints imposed by nationalism, social structures, and traditional narrative forms.
This volume offers:
A renewed and critical vision of modernism, dismantling myths about the alienated subject and solipsism.
The opportunity to understand modernism as a relational space, where belonging does not always mean conformity but rather the rediscovery of identity through new connections.
An analysis of essential authors alongside a vindication of less commonly acknowledged voices, equally valuable to the movement.
Organized in a clear and structured manner, the book invites reflection on two major themes:
1. Dynamics of Belonging and Estrangement: Exploring canonical works such as Dubliners, Mrs. Dalloway, and Beckett’s trilogy.
2. Aesthetic Attribution and Modernist Reception: Addressing how modernism is redefined through fundamental texts by Pound, Lovecraft, and others.
In short, this book not only sheds new light on modernism from an unprecedented perspective but also offers readers a powerful tool for understanding how dynamics of belonging continue to shape our cultural narratives.
AUTORES:
JUAN L. PÉREZ DE LUQUE
PAULA MARTÍN-SALVÁN
MÁS TÍTULOS SOBRE TRADUCCIÓN/ INTERPRETACIÓN
Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque</h1>

is Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba. His research interests focus on popular literature in the English language in its broadest conception, including horror, science fiction and fantasy, particularly from an ideological point of view. He has recently published articles and book chapters on William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft, Jeanette Winterson and Neal Stephenson. He is the author of a monograph on H.P. Lovecraft (2020), and is currently part of a research project on Transparency in English Literature, where he is examining the works of the writers Paul Tremblay and Mark Z. Danielewski. (Twitter: @drjuanlperez)
Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque es profesor ayudante doctor en la Universidad de Córdoba. Su interés investigador se centra en la literatura popular en lengua inglesa en su concepción más amplia, incluyendo terror, ciencia-ficción y fantasía, particularmente desde un punto de vista ideológico. Recientemente ha publicado artículos y capítulos de libro sobre William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft, Jeanette Winterson y Neal Stephenson. Es autor de una monografía sobre H.P. Lovecraft (2020), y actualmente forma parte de un proyecto de investigación sobre Transparencia en la Literatura en Inglés, donde examina las obras de los autores Paul Tremblay y Mark Z. Danielewski. (Twitter: @drjuanlperez)
Paula Martín-Salván

is Professor of English Literature at the University of Córdoba. Her research focuses on the representation of communities in contemporary American and British fiction, and her recent work discusses the dialectics between transparency and secrecy in the work of authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo. She has co-edited the collections Figures of Belatedness: Postmodernist Fiction in English (2006), Community in Twentieth Century Fiction (2013), New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (2017), The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Literature (2024). She is also the author of monographs on Don DeLillo (2009) and Graham Greene (2015), and has recently finished a monograph on Colson Whitehead. She is the PI of the research project Poetics and Politics of Transparency in Contemporary Literature in English funded by the Spanish government (grant ref. PID2019-104526GB-I00), currently being implemented by researchers from the Universities of Córdoba and Granada.
Paula Martín-Salván es catedrática de Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Córdoba. Su investigación se centra en la representación de comunidades en la ficción contemporánea estadounidense y británica, y sus trabajos recientes analizan la dialéctica entre la transparencia y el secreto en la obra de autores como Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison y Don DeLillo. Ha co-editado las colecciones Figures of Belatedness: Postmodernist Fiction in English (2006), Community in Twentieth Century Fiction (2013), New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (2017) y The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Literature (2024). También es autora de monografías sobre Don DeLillo (2009) y Graham Greene (2015), y ha finalizado recientemente una monografía sobre Colson Whitehead. Es investigadora principal del proyecto de investigación Poéticas y Políticas de la Transparencia en la Literatura Contemporánea en Inglés (ref. PID2019-104526GB-I00), actualmente desarrollado por investigadores de las universidades de Córdoba y Granada.