Modernism beyond the Human

Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). His publications on modernism include Laughter from Realism to Modernism (2015) and La scemenza del mondo (2011; Edinburgh Gadda First Prize). He is principal investigator of an NWO Vidi project on humor andfree speech jurisprudence (2022-2027), and founder of the Forum for Humor and the Law (www.forhum.org). Carmen van den Bergh is Assistant Professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) in the Netherlands, where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department. Simultaneously she works in Belgium at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) as a senior research fellow for the Flemish Council for Scientific Research (FWO) with a project on the role of writers in newspapers and magazines of the Italian Novecento. Her specializations include Italian modernism, prose writings during the Italian interwar, (neo)realism in film and literature, the literary canon and the function of anthologies.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAlberto Godioli and Carmen van den BerghPart 1Modernism and the Nonhuman1 Prefiguring Modernist Posthumanism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud and the Objectification of the Lyric SelfAlessandro Cabiati2 Becoming-Digit: Valentine de Saint-Point’s Posthumanist FuturismPavlina Radia3 Politics of Identity: Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Poetry of the Great War Between Nomadic Subjectivity and Performative RealismEnrica Maria Ferrara4 Variations On “Maquinismo”: Looking Beyond the Human in Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s WritingsÂngela Fernandes5 The Tender Being of Something Else: Geography and Lists in Gertrude Stein’s IdaLaura Oulanne6 Samuel Beckett and Modernist VitalismMarc FarrantPart 2Modernist Animals7 Rumination of a Serbian Ox: Radoje Domanovic’s Satire of Anthropocentric FollyVedran Catovic8 “Come se”: Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Pirandello’s Short StoriesSanti Luca Famà9 Modernist Exiles: the Berlin Years of Viktor Shklovsky, Aleksei Remizov, and the Masturbating ApeAsiya Bulatova10 “Brandishing Her Plumes”: Virginia Woolf, Feather Tropes, and the Plumage (Prohibition) BillSaskia McCracken11 Posthumanism avant la lettre: Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities and the Boundaries of HumankindFlorian Kappeler12 Animals and Logos in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies, and The UnnamableLaura Lainväe13 Towards an Interpretation of a Modernist Bestiary in Color: Palazzeschi’s Bestie Del 900 and Maccari’s IllustrationsSarah BonciarelliIndex