 | Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0817309217 | ISBN-13: 978-0817309213| Edition: 1 Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticiz...
 |  | Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 29, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415899109 | ISBN-13: 978-0415899109| Edition: 1 This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising voices in modern poetry. Although he then left the city for a job in Hartford, Stevens never saw himself as a ...
|  | Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal
Publication Date: November 5, 2008| ISBN-10: 0231145071 | ISBN-13: 978-0231145077Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal c...
|  | Survey of Modernist Poetry and a Pamphlet Against Anthologies
Publication Date: September 26, 2002| ISBN-10: 1857545680 | ISBN-13: 978-1857545685The books paired here make up the first collaborative study of 'Modernist' poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. In "A Survey of Modernist Poetry", Laura Riding and Robert Graves produce a contemporary reaction to the early experimentation of writers such as Eliot, Pound and E.E.Cummings. Their close critical readings are deployed, along the way, in an engagement with Shakespeare's punctuation, issues of populism and elitism and an attempt to define - perhaps to invent...
|  | Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China
Publication Date: September 2003Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. In doing so, she counters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism and literary description. Laurence expands her examinati...
| | Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism (SRLT)
Publication Date: July 31, 2012| Series: SRLTIn what marks an exciting new critical direction, Rebecca Stanton contends that the city of Odessa—as a canonical literary image and as a kaleidoscopic cultural milieu—shaped the narrative strategies developed by Isaac Babel and his contemporaries of the Revolutionary generation. Modeling themselves on the tricksters and rogues of Odessa lore, Babel and his fellow Odessans Valentin Kataev and Yury Olesha manipulated their literary personae through complex, playful, and often subversive negotiations of the boundary between autobi...
|  | The Fin-de-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s
Publication Date: October 5, 2005Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century...
|  | War Trauma and English Modernism: T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
Release Date: August 30, 2011This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. ...
|  | Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration
Publication Date: February 12, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521033306 | ISBN-13: 978-0521033305In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs reveals how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of racial improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. He traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land, and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. This is an original study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of seve...
|  | Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village: Conversing with the Moderns, 1915-1931 (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)
Publication Date: December 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0299151840 | ISBN-13: 978-0299151843| Edition: 1 Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke’s early career inGreenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high schoolin Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprenticeconversing with “the moderns.” Burke found himself in the midst of anavant-garde peopled by Malcolm Cowley, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer,Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Hart Crane,Alfred Stieglitz, and a host of other fascinating figures.
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|  | Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism (Global Masculinities)
Release Date: October 11, 2011| Series: Global Masculinities In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of “cowboy masculinity,” as dramatized in late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism....
|  | The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0816633282 | ISBN-13: 978-0816633289| Edition: 1 In the early decades of the twentieth century, women's pursuit of freedom and independence earned both the adulation and the scorn of American modernists. Elizabeth Francis traces this unexpected, complex strain in cultural history through the stories of four legendary American figures-Isadora Duncan, Margaret Anderson, Floyd Dell, and Josephine Herbst. The Secret Treachery of Words begins in the early 1910s, when feminism was an essential part of the "the shock of the new" that modernist art and t...
|  | Body And Soul: The Making Of American Modernism
Publication Date: December 18, 2000In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age," we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. In order to correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name as he traces the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York. While Crunden emphasize...
|  | Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics
Publication Date: February 12, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521033012 | ISBN-13: 978-0521033015Matz examines the writing of such modernists as James, Conrad and Woolf, who used the word "impression" to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. Matz argues that these writers did not favor immediate subjective sense, but rather a mode that would mediate perceptual distinctions. Just as impressions fall somewhere between thought and sense, impressionist fiction occupies the middle ground between opposite ways of engaging with the world. This study addresses the problems of perception and repre...
|  | Five Paradoxes of Modernity
Publication Date: October 27, 1994From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" ...
|  | The Humane Particulars: The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Release Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication Significantly deepening our understanding of two key figures from the modernist period, The Humane Particulars collects the letters between William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke. Written during forty-two years of close friendship and literary debate, these nearly 250 letters span two long lives, two complicated personalities, and two brilliantly productive careers. The animated exchange between a canonical poet and the leading American rhetorical critic of the twentieth century offers a more complete vision of their ou...
|  | Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources)
Publication Date: November 25, 2009| Series: Literary Research: Strategies and Sources (Book 7) Focusing on work produced between 1880 and 1945, Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources provides scholars with the necessary methods and tools for studying the literature of this period. This reference guide will facilitate research into the works of such major modernist writers as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, and Somerset Maugham, as well as lesser known or forgotten authors of the era.The book discusses research methodology and t...
|  | Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel
Release Date: February 13, 2003Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the pr...
|  | Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914: Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot
Release Date: February 15, 2011Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 is a defense of literary modernism that recognizes for the first time that the deepest goal of high modernism is to establish a renewed humanism for the twentieth century. Recent critiques of modernism have tended to diminish its literary standing by emphasizing the reactionary politics of the period and connecting the literature to those developments as complicit or at least parallel. In his incisive readings offour pillars of high modernism--James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot--Stephen Sicari returns ...
| | Edith Wharton's Inner Circle (Literary Modernism Series)
Publication Date: January 1994| Series: Literary Modernism Series When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her "inner circle" or, sometimes, "the happy few." This group included both well-known figures, such as James, Percy Lubbock, and Bernard Berenson, and several now forgotten, including John Hugh Smith, Walter Berry, Gaillard Lapsley, Robert Norton, and Howard Sturgis. Drawing on unpublished archival material by and about members of the circle, Susan Goodman here presents an intimate view of this American expatriate community, as well as th...
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