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  • - Gender, Genre, Solo Performance
    af Boston University) Preston, Carrie J. (Assistant Professor of English and Women's, Gender, mfl.
    555,95 - 965,95 kr.

    Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics.

  • - The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
    af Case Western Reserve University) Pinkerton, Steve (Lecturer in English & Lecturer in English
    451,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    Blasphemous Modernism argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from the idiom of blasphemy.

  • - The Uses of Modernist Fiction
    af Stanford University) Bronstein, Michaela (Assistant English Professor & Assistant English Professor
    467,95 - 1.082,95 kr.

    Out of Context disrupts the notion of static context, instead proposing a transhistorical approach to literature, revealing that the significance of literature is in its moments of surprising reception.

  • - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World
    af Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson
    1.261,95 kr.

    Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology-Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Edouard Glissant-and anthropologists who adopted literary forms-Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

  • - Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen
    af Alix ( Beeston
    1.140,95 kr.

    Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing-revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around the instability of female bodies.

  • - From Good Neighbors to Countercultures
    af Northwestern University) Feinsod, Harris (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
    510,95 - 1.383,95 kr.

    The Poetry of the Americas provides an expansive history of relations between poets in the US and Latin America over three decades, from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II to 1960s Cold War cultural policy.

  • af Benjamin (Lecturer in English Literature Bateman
    1.106,95 kr.

    Drawing on a critical framework informed by queer theory and psychoanalysis, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival offers a new definition of survival, one that means more than merely the continuation of life. This book creates a literary archive of counterarguments to the conventional Darwinian evolutionary protocols of survival in early 20th century thought.

  • - Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
    af Gayle (Assistant Professor of English Rogers
    430,95 kr.

    Drawing on 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, and stretching at key moments in between Ireland and the Americas.

  • - Making It New in New Media
    af University Of California, San Diego) Pressman, Jessica (Visiting Scholar & mfl.
    496,95 - 1.808,95 kr.

    Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism.

  • - Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
    af Elizabeth (Associate Professor of English, University of Richmond) Outka & Associate Professor of English
    473,95 - 938,95 kr.

  • - British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics
    af Associate Professor, University of Kentucky) Kalliney & Peter J. (Associate Professor
    532,95 - 1.069,95 kr.

    Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures.

  • - Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development
    af University of Pennsylvania) Esty, Jed (Associate Professor of English & Associate Professor of English
    594,95 - 873,95 kr.

    Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions by Wilde, Woolf, Conrad, Joyce, Bowen, and others to challenge and expand our understanding of the bildungsroman genre.

  • - Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture
    af T. Austin (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Graham
    1.069,95 kr.

    The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts.

  • - Modernism from Wilde to de Man
    af Andrew (Assistant Professor of English Goldstone
    1.069,95 kr.

    Fictions of Autonomy presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man.

  • - Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman a Clef
    af Sean (Professor of English Latham
    472,95 kr.

    The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman a clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism.

  • - Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
    af Robert (University of Tulsa) Spoo
    416,95 - 734,95 kr.

    This book reveals the impact of copyright law on transatlantic modernism in the United States. Key aspects of modernism-James Joyce's reputation in America, Ezra Pound's proposals for copyright reform, Samuel Roth's activities as a pirate-pornographer-are reexamined in the light of the U.S. law and the voracious public domain it created.

  • - Metageographies of Modernist Fiction
    af Jon (Assistant Professor of English Hegglund
    991,95 kr.

    World Views examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.

  • af Knoxville) Schoenbach, Lisi (Associate Professor of English, The University of Tennessee & mfl.
    531,95 - 795,95 kr.

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    442,95 kr.

    How was modernism shaped by copyright law? How did modernists, for their part, exploit, reform, and evade intellectual property law? In pursuit of these questions, Modernism and Copyright brings together essays by well-known scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates.

  • - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
    af Matthew (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor & Columbia University) Hart
    477,95 - 575,95 kr.

  • - American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene
    af Robin G. (Professor of English Schulze
    1.219,95 kr.

    The early twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the American conception of nature. This book analyzes the ways in which the scientific recasting of American nature as an antidote for degeneration influenced work of important modernist writers Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore.

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    834,95 kr.

    How was modernism shaped by copyright law? How did modernists, for their part, exploit, reform, and evade intellectual property law? In pursuit of these questions, Modernism and Copyright brings together essays by well-known scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates.

  • - The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
    af University of Michigan) Miller, Joshua L. (Associate Professor of English & Associate Professor of English
    400,95 - 1.403,95 kr.

  • - The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism
    af C.D. (Associate Professor of English Blanton
    1.126,95 kr.

    Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical content.

  • - Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation
    af David (Assistant Professor Sherman
    1.135,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Writing as Countermourning
    af Sanja (Senior Lecturer Bahun
    1.135,95 kr.

    Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques.

  • - The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire
    af Genevieve Abravanel
    433,95 - 1.135,95 kr.

    Americanizing Britain anatomizes the various ways British writers responded to the ever-increasing influence of U.S. culture on England and the rest of the world.

  • - Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland
    af Sarah Cole
    509,95 - 1.427,95 kr.

    At the Violet Hour offers a richly historicized, trenchant look at the interlocking of literature with violence in British and Irish modernist texts.

  • - Literature, Information, and the State
    af James (Research Fellow Purdon
    1.212,95 kr.

    Modernist Informatics traces the effects of an infomation culture in the early twentieth-century, where experimental approaches to narrative and to subjectivity began to compete with government archives for the right to represent the citizens of the modern security state.