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Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement
Inbunden, 2013
3146 kr
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This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring …
Stability of Laughter
The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? …
Black USA and Spain
Shared Memories in the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's …
Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century
Av Jake Poller
Inbunden, 2019
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The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, were cultivated and studied, while older ASCs were given new classifications: out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, …
Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity
Commercial Cosmopolitanism
Inbunden, 2019
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Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmopolitan culture, both in popular and high art. The book contextualizes James’s writing within a …
Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf
The Being of Art and the Art of Being
Av Adam Noland
Inbunden, 2019
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This volume analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through a philosophical lens, providing an interpretive overview of her works through Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic ontology. The text argues that interpretation itself is the central subject matter of Woolf’s novels: in order to understand these …
Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction
Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family
Av Miranda Corcoran, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the …
Gombrowicz in Transnational Context
Translation, Affect, and Politics
Av Silvia Dapia
Inbunden, 2019
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Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four years as an émigré in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and finally Vence, France. His works have always been of interest to those studying Polish or Argentinean …
New Oceania
Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific
Av Matthew Hayward, Maebh Long
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have …
Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language
Faith with the Word
Inbunden, 2019
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Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central to our conception of modernism’s …
Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood
Stimmung and Modernity
Inbunden, 2020
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This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in the nexus between discourses on modernity, …
Nationality of Utopia
H. G. Wells, England, and the World State
Inbunden, 2019
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Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to the World State, whose post-national, post-Westphalian emergence he predicated on English national …
Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing
Writing in the Wings
Av Graham Wolfe
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern …
Literary Criticism, Culture and the Subject of 'English': F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot
Av Dandan Zhang
Inbunden, 2020
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This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and cultural criticism, and connecting it to the broader discourse of English Studies as a university subject that developed in the first half of the twentieth century. …
French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK
Av Irving Goh
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on …
Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China
Modernism, Travel, and Form
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn’s insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound’s mediated ‘journeys’ to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock – Anglo-American representations of China during the first …
Character and Dystopia
The Last Men
Inbunden, 2020
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This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Fyodor …
Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation
Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections
Inbunden, 2019
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Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing model—individual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author …
William Faulkner and Mortality
A Fine Dead Sound
Inbunden, 2021
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William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of ‘saying No to death’. Through close-readings …
William Faulkner and Mortality
A Fine Dead Sound
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of ‘saying No to death’. Through close-readings …
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
Av Alice Wood
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper’s Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was …
Early Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Av Willard Bohn
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movements that shaped our response to the demands of the modern age and contributed to the creation of a modern sensibility: Cubism, Futurism, the …
Queering Modernist Translation
The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness
Inbunden, 2020
3146 kr
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Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues in translation, such as gender, sexuality, …
Queering Modernist Translation
The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues in translation, such as gender, sexuality, …
Modernist Literature and European Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of …
Modernist Literature and European Identity
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of …
Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Inbunden, 2020
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In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both …
Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both …
Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
Women Writing for Women
Av Ailsa Granne
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a …
Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
Women Writing for Women
Av Ailsa Granne
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a …
