Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination

Informations projet

TimeWorks

N° de convention de subvention: 101105988

DOI

10.3030/101105988

Date de signature de la CE 24 Avril 2023

Date de début 1 Octobre 2023

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2026

Financé au titre de

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Coût total

Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE

€ 284 179,68

Coordonné par

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TimeWorks (Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination)

Période du rapport: 2023-10-01 au 2025-09-30

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

The project aims to study the temporality of work in modernist literature, through a focus on the work of writing. (To be updated before project finish)

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

1. Refined research direction based on empirical findings: the project’s focus has shifted toward lower-middle-class literature, leading to a restructured WP2 and clearer attention to class, gender, and time.
2. Historical-sociological study of literary production: research has clarified how publishing history, audience formation, and socioeconomic conditions influenced the temporal contexts of modernist writing.
3. Case studies of writer and artist figures: analysis of fiction from the turn of the twentieth century has generated preliminary results for articles on: a) the literary formation of the lower middle class, b) the embattled lower-middle-class writer in the work of George Orwell, c) labor refusal and suspended temporality in writing by Mina Loy.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

New theoretical framework on labor and time in literature: the project has developed tools linking representations of writers and artists to social questions of labor and temporality, with emphasis on the rise of the lower-middle class as key historical and literary component.