Questioning the Origins in European and American Culture

This issue of CoSMo is dedicated to the topic of the origins. Such an archetype is of paramount importance for literary Modernism, as the many contributions on capital protagonists of this period, from Joyce himself to Montale, as well as the re-evaluation of modern Latvian writers or the aesthetical value of Star Wars do testify. Our prime aim in collecting these essays was that of offering a range of case studies possessing a twofold value: besides being interesting in themselves as innovative readings, they all subscribe to the most thought-provoking attitude of contemporary Modernist studies, that is expanding the traditional borders of this literary phase.