Frontmatter -- Contents -- Borderless Europe, Decentring Avant-Garde, Mosaic Modernism -- "What's the Difference?" Revisiting the Concepts of Modernism and the Avant-Garde -- The Slovenian Interwar Literary Avant-Garde and Its Canonization -- Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde -- The 20th Century: Century of the Arrière-Gardes? -- "The Serpent Eats Its Tail": Avant-Garde and Arrière-garde in Paris, 1943-1953 -- How We Look and Read: The European Avant-Garde's Imprint on 20th-Century Theory -- Phönix Europa? Krieg und Kultur in Rudolf Pannwitz' und Hugo von Hofmannsthals europäischer Idee -- Europa minor. Yvan and Claire Goll's Europe -- La revue Zenit: une avant-garde entre particularisme identitaire et internationalisme -- Europa: une manifestation des avant-gardes européennes -- L'avant-garde bulgare de l'entre-deux-guerres comme exemple de l'«autre Europe» -- History or Europe: Images of Europe and Defense of Aesthetic Innovation in Post-1918 Poland -- Ästhetische Moderne und totalitäres Anti-Europa: der spanische Avantgardist Ernesto Giménez Caballero -- Ezra Pound's Fascist "Europa": Toward the Pisan Cantos -- Writing the Foundations of a Better World: The Role of Anglo-German Literary Exchange in the Reconstruction of Germany and the Construction of Europe, 1945-1949 -- Avant-Garde or Civil Service? Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau and "The European Situation" -- Discours internationaliste et conscience identitaire des échanges culturels : l'exemple belgo-allemand (Der Sturm, Résurrection) -- Historizing Modern Art: The "Difficult" Names -- The Insignia of Modernity and "le mouvement Apollinaire" -- Okkultismus, Esoterik, Mystik und die Ikonographie des Unsichtbaren in der frühen mitteleuropäischen Avantgarde. Das Beispiel der Posener Gruppe Bunt und des Bauhausprofessors Lothar Schreyer.

Apokalypse als Narrenspiel: Kurt Schwitters und die Mystik -- Messianic Endgames in German-Jewish Expressionist Literature -- "Here I am at home - here I am in a foreign land". Multilingualism, Modernism and (De)territorialization in the Works of the Finland-Swedish Writer Elmer Diktonius -- Configurations « autographiques » dans Mémoires d'une liseuse de draps de Belen/Nelly Kaplan, ou comment déclencher le fou rire -- Artificial Africa in the European Avant-Garde: Marinetti and Tzara -- Seeing African Sculpture: Carl Einstein's "ethnographie du blanc" -- Surrealism for the Ear: Paul Deharme's Radio-Plays -- Amauta, l'Europe et les avant-gardes -- Carpentier's Marvellous Real: Modernity and its Discontents in the Tropics -- Europa, Amerika in transition (1927-1938): Literatursprachliche Interkulturalität und Transgressionen des Avantgardesubjekts -- Travels of an Avant-Gardist, West-East-West: On Kawara -- The Colour of Modernism: Colour-Form Experiments in Europe and Australia -- Backmatter.