From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: European Modernity in the Making

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1

Belgian Literature and the Symbolism of the Double	p. 8
Maeterlinck and the Search for Music	p. 23
On the Art of Crossing Borders: The Double Artist in Belgium, between Myth and Reality	p. 30
Belgian 'Negro' Fiction: Modernist Itinerary of a Didactic Genre	p. 41

Modernity and Politics	p. 58
Representation and Subjectivity: Belgian Playwrights and Modernity	p. 68
A Sulphurous Time: Les contes du whisky by Jean Ray, a Translation of 'les Annees Folles'	p. 78
Belgian Photography between the Two World Wars, or the Hesitations between Late Pictorialism and the New Vision	p. 95
Herge-Simenon, Thirties	p. 110
A Road Story of the Belgian Avant-Garde	p. 128
The Avant-Garde on the Reworking of Tradition	p. 142
'Tranquil Independence': National Identity and Musical Modernity in Belgium between the Wars	p. 152
Surrealism in Belgium between the Wars	p. 161
Twenty Years On - Distances: Belgian and French Surrealists and 'the' Revolution	p. 174
The Splendours of Hatred: Louis Scutenaire between Surrealism and Situationism	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 205
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