About the Journal
CoSMo – Comparative Studies in Modernism is an Open Access, online journal first issued in 2012.
The journal hosts research items on various kinds of aesthetic approaches, modes of writing and artistic expression, particularly focusing on the discourses characterizing various Modernisms, their roots and outgrowths, up to postmodernism and after.
The journal’s profile is basically comparative and interdisciplinary, comparing different forms of knowledge, such as literature, philosophy, law, the sciences and the arts, different forms of art, such as literature, cinema, performance, new media, different national cultures, often focusing on the perspectives coming from “other Europes”. These approaches are mainly directed to revisiting avant-garde, modernist, postmodernist movements and their contemporary developments.