Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination

Informazioni relative al progetto

TimeWorks

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101105988

DOI

10.3030/101105988

Data della firma CE 24 Aprile 2023

Data di avvio 1 Ottobre 2023

Data di completamento 30 Settembre 2026

Finanziato da

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Costo totale

Nessun dato

Contributo UE

€ 284 179,68

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2023-10-01 al 2025-09-30

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

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)

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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.