Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, this text shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early 20th century capitalism and how modernist fiction reconfigured capitalist mythologies along the fa…
Introduction: Liberating captivity: sacred translations of secular narratives -- A pious translation: the multiplicity of call it sleep and Henry Roth's single sin -- Converting books into bodies: unorthodox women and the vanity of art -- An inward eye: Modigliani and the burden…
Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intelle…
"One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between de…
"Africa In Stereo" examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the 19th century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the…
Although contemporary scholarship views D.H. Lawrence as a distinctly English author, Lee M. Jenkins argues for a reassessment of his relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, including "Studies in Classic American Literature" and "The Plumed S…