Literary studies: from c 1900 -

Poetry and poetics after Wallace Stevens

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"As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while…

Poetry and poetics after Wallace Stevens

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"As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while…

Matisse's poets: critical performance in the artist's book

by Brown, Kathryn, (Kathryn J.)

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Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in…

Lyric pedagogy and Marxist-feminism: social reproduction and the institutions of poetry

by Solomon, Samuel, (Samuel Bernard)

fromBloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics

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"What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era? Exploring an often overlooked history of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain - including such poets as Denise Riley, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Nat Raha - this book confronts this centr…

James Joyce's silences

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In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce's writing. Examining Joyce's major works, including Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wa…

Modernist lives: biography and autobiography at Leonard and Virgin…

by Battershill, Claire

fromHistoricizing modernism

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Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material …

Irish literature since 1990: diverse voices

by Manchester University Press

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This book focuses on the drama and poetry published since 1990. It also reflects upon related forms of creative work in this period, including film and the visual and performing arts. The book discusses some of the most topical issues which have emerged in Irish theatre since 19…

George Orwell and religion

by Brennan, Michael G.

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"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work."

Lacan and the posthuman

by Roof, Judith, Matviyenko, Svitlana

fromPalgrave Lacan series

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"When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinki…

Nabokov and Nietzsche: problems and perspectives

by Rodgers, Michael, (College teacher)

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"Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives addresses the many knotted issues in the work of Vladimir Nabokov -- Lolita's moral stance, Pnin's relationship with memory, Pale Fire's ambiguous internal authorship -- that often frustrate interpretation. It does so by arguing …

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

fromKnowledge Unlatched

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From orientalism to cultural capital: the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus James

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

"Colonised by Wankers": Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

by Homberg-Schramm, Jessica

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"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisati…

Satirizing modernism: aesthetic autonomy, romanticism, and the avant-ga…

by Stinson, Emmett

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"Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels--such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sor…

Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead

by Tillett, Rebecca

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"Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit discou…

Samuel Beckett and cinema

by Paraskeva, Anthony

fromHistoricizing modernism

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In 1936 Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to Sergei Eisenstein - the legendary director of such films as Battleship Potemkin - expressing his own desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. Drawing on substantial archival material, this is the first book to examine comprehe…

The politics of Jewishness in contemporary world literature: the holocaust, Zionism and colonialism

by Hesse, Isabelle

fromNew horizons in contemporary writing

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"Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining ho…