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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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