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News from the New American Diaspora
And Other Tales of Exile
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation-strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American …
Joyce and the Two Irelands
Häftad, 2001
313 kr
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Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism that began in the 1890s and continued into the early twentieth century. Yet many of the Revival's Protestant leaders, including W. B. Yeats, Lady …
Geometry of Modernism
The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
Häftad, 2006
442 kr
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Addressing both the literature and the visual arts of Anglo-American modernism, The Geometry of Modernism recovers a crucial development of modernism's early years that until now has received little sustained critical attention: the distinctive idiom composed of geometric forms and metaphors …
Joyce's Web
The Social Unraveling of Modernism
Häftad, 2009
316 kr
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James Joyce has long been viewed as a literary modernist who helped define and uphold modernism's fundamental concepts of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities and of an idealistic faith in artistic freedom. In this revolutionary work, however, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce's art …
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
Inbunden, 2011
715 kr
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The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart …
Early Poetry of Robert Graves
The Goddess Beckons
Häftad, 2002
249 kr
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Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the …
Our Joyce
From Outcast to Icon
Av Joseph Kelly
Häftad, 1998
377 kr
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James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose …
Stoppard's Theatre
Finding Order Amid Chaos
Av John Fleming
Häftad, 2001
410 kr
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With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, …
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars
Av Faye Hammill
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon-celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private …
Every Intellectual's Big Brother
George Orwell's Literary Siblings
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2006
349 kr
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George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost …
Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Häftad, 2002
349 kr
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Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are …
Edith Wharton's Inner Circle
Häftad, 2011
249 kr
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When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her "inner circle." 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 …
Unexamined Orwell
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2011
511 kr
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, …
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart …
William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
Häftad, 2002
316 kr
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In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part-gentleman dandy, soldier, farmer-while in his fictions these and other personae are counterpoised against one another to create a world of controlled chaos, made in …
Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles
“Two Very Serious Ladies”
Inbunden, 2016
2315 kr
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This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American …
Philosophical Baroque
On Autopoietic Modernities
Inbunden, 2017
2237 kr
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In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities, Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco. Reframing modernity as a …
BLAST at 100
A Modernist Magazine Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2017
2201 kr
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BLAST at 100 makes an original contribution to the understanding of a major modernist magazine. Providing new critical readings that consider the magazine’s influence within contexts that have not been acknowledged before – in the development of Irish and Spanish literature and culture in the …
Teaching Modernist Anglophone Literature
Av Mary Madden
Inbunden, 2018
1729 kr
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Teaching Modernist Anglophone Literature features fresh classroom approaches to teaching modernism, with an emphasis on pedagogy grounded in educational theory and contemporary digital media tools. It offers techniques for improving students’ close reading, critical thinking/writing, and engagement …
Aphoristic Modernity
1880 to the Present
Inbunden, 2019
2301 kr
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For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the …
Imperial Middlebrow
Inbunden, 2020
2186 kr
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The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of …
Self-Optimization in Modernist Culture
Inbunden, 2025
2321 kr
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Our contemporary society is obsessed with the idea of self-optimization, a concept that implies the need to constantly work on improving oneself and one’s appearance. The roots of postmodern self-optimization, however, lie in the cultural industries that emerged in the late nineteenth and early …
Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Modernisms
Inbunden, 2026
1916 kr
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This book’s main hypothesis is that Caribbean modernism was deeply entangled in processes of social and political transformation. In exploring and articulating an expanded approach to Caribbean modernism, we do not merely approach it as a universalizing spectrum of formal and stylistic options, but …
