Modernist Literature & Culture – serie
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Machine-Age Comedy
Häftad, 2008
673 kr
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In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a …
Without Copyrights
Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Av Robert Spoo
Häftad, 2016
677 kr
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The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign …
The Poetry of the Americas
From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
Häftad, 2020
821 kr
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The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop, …
Modernism and the New Spain
Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
Av Gayle Rogers
Häftad, 2014
734 kr
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Assembling works in a variety of genres, Gayle Rogers reconstructs an archive of cross-cultural exchanges to reveal the mutual constitution of two modernist movements -- one in Britain, the other in Spain, with both stretching at key moments to Ireland and the Americas. Several sites of …
Pragmatic Modernism
Häftad, 2015
944 kr
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Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, …
Modernist Informatics
Literature, Information, and the State
Av James Purdon
Inbunden, 2016
1956 kr
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Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, national governments and writers of fiction alike began to take an interest in information not simply as fact, nor yet as effortlessly transmissible data, but as an …
Americanizing Britain
The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire
Häftad, 2016
776 kr
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How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-during the first …
Commonwealth of Letters
British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics
Häftad, 2016
923 kr
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Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial …
Blasphemous Modernism
The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
Inbunden, 2017
1533 kr
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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific ways this …
Out of Context
The Uses of Modernist Fiction
Inbunden, 2018
2104 kr
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How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences they could not yet imagine. In recent years however, scholars of modernism have focused on pinning …
The Modernist Art of Queer Survival
Inbunden, 2017
1353 kr
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Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and precariousness. Queerness remains continuously under threat; these threats to survival can be …
The Poetry of the Americas
From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
Inbunden, 2017
2109 kr
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The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s. Connecting works by Martín Adán, Elizabeth Bishop, …
In and Out of Sight
Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen
Av Alix Beeston
Inbunden, 2018
2104 kr
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In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving …
Culture Writing
Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World
Av Tim Watson
Inbunden, 2018
1978 kr
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Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and French empires collapsed and …
Accented America
The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Inbunden, 2011
2494 kr
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Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English. This perspective presents U.S. literary works written between the 1890s and …
Accented America
The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Häftad, 2011
579 kr
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Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English. This perspective presents U.S. literary works written between the 1890s and …
Consuming Traditions
Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
Inbunden, 2008
1399 kr
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In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an …
The Hypothetical Mandarin Sympathy, modernity, and Chinese Pain
Av Eric Hayot
Inbunden, 2009
959 kr
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The Hypothetical Mandarin begins with two simple questions: Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? And what can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the …
Machine-Age Comedy
Inbunden, 2009
3021 kr
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In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a …
The Hypothetical Mandarin
Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain
Av Eric Hayot
Häftad, 2009
635 kr
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The Hypothetical Mandarin begins with two simple questions: Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? And what can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the …
At the Violet Hour
Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland
Av Sarah Cole
Inbunden, 2012
2178 kr
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At the Violet Hour argues that the literature of the early twentieth-century in England and Ireland was deeply organized around a reckoning with grievous violence, imagined as intimate, direct, and often transformative. The book aims to excavate and amplify a consistent feature of this literature, …
Pragmatic Modernism
Inbunden, 2011
1440 kr
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Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, …
Nations of Nothing But Poetry
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
Av Matthew Hart
Inbunden, 2010
797 kr
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What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and "Black Atlantic" poetries from the landmark modernist …
Blasphemous Modernism
The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
Häftad, 2020
755 kr
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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific ways this …
Out of Context
The Uses of Modernist Fiction
Häftad, 2020
863 kr
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How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences they could not yet imagine. In recent years however, scholars of modernism have focused on pinning …
Unseasonable Youth
Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development
Av Jed Esty
Häftad, 2013
916 kr
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Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and …
Nations of Nothing But Poetry
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
Av Matthew Hart
Häftad, 2013
729 kr
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Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language …
In a Strange Room
Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation
Inbunden, 2014
2062 kr
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Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and the U.S. A focus on the disturbing but recurring image of the corpse allows Sherman to consider a …
Modernism's Mythic Pose
Gender, Genre, Solo Performance
Häftad, 2014
846 kr
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Winner of the de la Torre Bueno prize, Society of Dance History ScholarsThe 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 …
At the Violet Hour
Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland
Av Sarah Cole
Häftad, 2014
860 kr
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Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by human civilization. Yet no single literary movement was more powerfully shaped by violence than modernism. As Sarah Cole shows, modernism emerged as an imaginative response to the devastating events that defined …
