 | The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature
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 |  | 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...
|  | Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: September 5, 2011| Series: Modernist Literature and Culture The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists.Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Der...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism
Publication Date: January 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 052157305X | ISBN-13: 978-0521573054Quantum Poetics examines the Modernist appropriation of scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the preverbal origins of poetry. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in, and defense of, the purity of symbols. Daniel Albright de...
|  | 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...
|  | The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader (Cultural Syllabus)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Cultural Syllabus The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the major figures, movements and manifestos of the period. Scholarly attention is given to literature, visual arts, cinema and theatre in an attempt to capture the complex nature of the modernist movement in Rus...
|  | What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity
Publication Date: March 28, 2008What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells,...
|  | The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde (Hopkins Studies in Modernism)
Publication Date: June 18, 2012| Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between the formal experimental features of their poetry and their progressive commitments to the radical potentials of modernity.Mixing textual analysis, archival research, and historiography, Ruth Jennison shows how Zukofsky, Oppen,...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: October 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 1405188227 | ISBN-13: 978-1405188227| Edition: 1 The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and cultureBroad in scope and comprehensive in coverageIncludes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the AtlanticBrings together entries on elements of modernist cultur...
|  | Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Socio-Poetics of Modernism (Cambridge Studies in French)
Publication Date: November 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521031346 | ISBN-13: 978-0521031349This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies.By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides a new and illuminating approach to Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism.Professor Holland demonstrates the impact of military authoritarianism and the capitalist market (as well as Baudelaire's much-discussed family circumstances) on the psychology and poetics of the writer, who abandoned his romantic ideal...
|  | The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism (New Americanists)
Publication Date: February 9, 1999| Series: New Americanists The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power. He then offers a revisionary reading of the pragmatists’ view of the permeability of subjective and objective realms and of how American literar...
|  | 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 ...
|  | The Decline of Modernism (Literature and Philosophy Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 1992| Series: Literature and Philosophy Series In The Decline of Modernism, Peter Burger addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century. In analyzing this relationship, he draws on a wide range of sociological and literary-critical sources---Weber, Benjamin,Foucault, Diderot, Sade, Wyndham Lewis, Peter Weiss, and Joseph Beuys, among others. He argues that in questioning the formal relationship between art and life, which had dominated the ei...
| | Modernity and the Text
Publication Date: June 15, 1989The study of Austrian and German modernist literature has a long and venerable history in this country. There have been no attempts yet, however, to reassess German and Austrian literary modernism in light of current discussion of modernity and postmodernity. Addressing a set of historical and theoretical questions central to current reevaluations of modernism, this volume presents American readers with a state-of-the-art account of German modernism studies in the eighties.Essays by Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Russell A. Berman, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Judith Ryan, Mark...
|  | 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...
|  | Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930
Release Date: December 20, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230231632 | ISBN-13: 978-0230231634Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. ...
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