'modernism And Theory' Boldly Asks What Role Theory Has To Play In The New Modernist Studies. The Sections Comprise Expositions And Debates On Modernist Topics By Leading Contributors And The Book Concludes With An Afterword From Fredric Jameson. Introduction. Missing Link / Stephen Ross -- Pt. I. Theory's Modernism: Concrete Connections -- 1. Rip The Veil Of The Old Vision Across, And Walk Through The Rent: Thinking Through Affect In D.h. Lawrence And Deleuze And Guattari / Anneleen Masschelein -- Deleuze And His Sources: Response To Anneleen Masschelein / Ian Buchanan -- 2. Modernism, Postmodernism, And The Two Sublimes Of Surrealism / Roger Rothaman -- Two Sublimes, Fourth Time Around Response To Roger Rothman / Allan Stoekl -- 3. What True Project Has Been Lost? Modern Art And Henri Lefebvre's Critique Of Everyday Life / Thomas S. Davis -- Disdained Everyday Fields Response To Thomas S. Davis / Ben Highmore -- 4. Time And Its Countermeasures: Modern Messianisms In Woolf, Benjamin, And Agamben / Hilary Thompson -- Time's Exception: Response To Hilary Thompson / Pamela Caughie -- Pt. Ii. Modernism's Theory: Abstract Affiliations -- 5. Persistence Of The Old Regime: Late Modernist Form In The Postmodern Period / Neil Levi -- In The Time Of Theory, The Timeliness Of Modernism Response To Neil Levi / Glenn Willmott -- 6. Invisible Times: Modernism As Ruptural Unity / C.d. Blanton -- More Than A Hint Of Desperation -- Historicizing Modernism Response To C.d. Blanton / Morag Shiach -- 7. This New Evolution Of Art: Adorno's Modernism As A Re-orientation Of Aesthetics / Oleg Gelikman -- What's New? On Adorno And The Modernist Aesthetics Of Novelty: Response To Oleg Gelikman / Martin Jay -- 8. Fables Of Progression: Modernism, Modernity, Narrative / Andrew John Miller -- Modernism And The Moment Of Defeat: Response To Andrew John Miller / Scott Mccracken -- Pt. Iii. Forum -- 9. Aesthetics / Charles F. Etieri -- 10. Ethics / Melba Cuddy-keane -- 11. Green / Bonnie Kime Scott -- 12. Avant-garde / Jane Goldman -- 13. Theory / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Afterword / Fredric Jameson. Edited By Stephen Ross. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.