Modernist memories: mnemotechnics, transmissions, temporalities

Abstract

ABSTRACT This introduction sets the critical parameters for this special issue on the topic of modernist memories. It describes how the 1922 modernist centenary, and a general turn to critical commemoration across the humanities, has opened avenues for further questions on the interrelation between modernism and memory, questions that this introduction frames and the articles gathered in this issue explore: what is a modernist memory? How have modernist forms and styles been received over the last century? And how does modernism remain to be recollected anew after its historicisation and production as a cultural memory?