Blasphemous Modernism

Steve Pinkerton

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics... Lees meer

Without Copyrights

Spoo

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• 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-sav... Lees meer

Fictions of Autonomy

Andrew Goldstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A... Lees meer

Epic Negation

C D Blanton

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political co... Lees meer

Digital Modernism

Jessica Pressman

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• While most critical studies of born-digital literature celebrate it as a postmodern art form with roots in contemporary technologies and social intera... Lees meer

Blasphemous Modernism

Steve Pinkerton

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics... Lees meer

Modernist Informatics

James Purdon

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, national governmen... Lees meer

Accented America

Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• American literary works written in the heyday of modernism between the 1890s and 1940s were playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with langua... Lees meer

Machine-Age Comedy

Michael North

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about ... Lees meer

The Great American Songbooks

T Austin Graham

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the p... Lees meer

Unseasonable Youth

Jed Esty

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless ado... Lees meer

Degenerate Muse

Robin G Schulze

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• A tide of newfound prosperity swept through America as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Modernity had arrived. Yet amid this climate ... Lees meer

World Views

Jon Hegglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the larg... Lees meer

Unseasonable Youth

Jed Esty

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless ado... Lees meer

Modernism and Copyright

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• How was modernism shaped, from its beginning, by intellectual property law? What role did the law's imperial and transatlantic asymmetries play in mod... Lees meer

Americanizing Britain

Abravanel

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the Unit... Lees meer

The Poetry of the Americas

Harris Feinsod

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Art of Scandal

Sean Latham

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early t... Lees meer

Out of Context

Michaela Bronstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• 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 eag... Lees meer

At the Violet Hour

Sarah Cole

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by human civilization. Yet no single literary movement was more pow... Lees meer

In a Strange Room

Sherman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture | nr. 21
• Literary modernism emerged as death, stripped in the developing world of traditional meanings and practices, became strange. The sea-change over the f... Lees meer

Consuming Traditions

Elizabeth Outka

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create a... Lees meer

Commonwealth of Letters

Peter J Kalliney

• Paperback | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to int... Lees meer

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Preston

• Hardcover | Engels | Modernist Literature and Culture
• The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photog... Lees meer