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Modernist Commitments
Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
Häftad, 2012
403 kr
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Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political …
Spirals
The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Av Nico Israel
Häftad, 2017
657 kr
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In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel …
In the Company of Strangers
Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Av Barry McCrea
Inbunden, 2011
2208 kr
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In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these …
In the Company of Strangers
Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Av Barry McCrea
Häftad, 2011
324 kr
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In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these …
Indigenous Vanguards
Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism
Inbunden, 2019
749 kr
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Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be equally enabled to participate in a …
Killing the Moonlight
Modernism in Venice
Inbunden, 2014
1588 kr
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As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic cliches, …
Killing the Moonlight
Modernism in Venice
Häftad, 2016
798 kr
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As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic cliches, …
New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Av Eric Hayot, Rebecca Walkowitz
Inbunden, 2016
1390 kr
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Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those …
New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Av Eric Hayot, Rebecca Walkowitz
Häftad, 2016
354 kr
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Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those …
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Inbunden, 2016
346 kr
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In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and …
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and …
Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print
Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime
Inbunden, 2015
650 kr
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Carrie Noland approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture. Engaging primarily the works of Aime Cesaire and Leon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter …
Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Av Thomas Davis
Inbunden, 2015
1390 kr
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In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward …
Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Av Thomas Davis
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward …
Planetary Modernisms
Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Inbunden, 2015
1390 kr
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Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. …
Planetary Modernisms
Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Häftad, 2018
354 kr
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Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. …
Ethnic Avant-Garde
Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Inbunden, 2015
1390 kr
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During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet …
Ethnic Avant-Garde
Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet …
At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture
Inbunden, 2016
1193 kr
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In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they are …
At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture
Häftad, 2021
304 kr
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In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they are …
Bachelor Japanists
Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Inbunden, 2016
1588 kr
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Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in …
Bachelor Japanists
Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Häftad, 2016
403 kr
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Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in …
On Company Time
American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Av Donal Harris
Inbunden, 2016
1390 kr
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James …
On Company Time
American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Av Donal Harris
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James …
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Av Gayle Rogers
Inbunden, 2016
1291 kr
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the …
Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Av Gayle Rogers
Häftad, 2018
657 kr
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the …
Little Magazine, World Form
Av Eric Bulson
Inbunden, 2016
1390 kr
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Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens to the world but, as Eric Bulson shows in Little Magazine, World Form, their reach and importance …
Little Magazine, World Form
Av Eric Bulson
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens to the world but, as Eric Bulson shows in Little Magazine, World Form, their reach and importance …
Chimeras of Form
Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016
Av Aarthi Vadde
Inbunden, 2016
1193 kr
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In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde vividly illustrates how modernist and contemporary writers reimagine the nation and internationalism in a period defined by globalization. She explains how Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use …
Chimeras of Form
Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016
Av Aarthi Vadde
Häftad, 2018
621 kr
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In the years following World War I, the “international” emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While …
