If Ezra Pound said about modernist writing, “Make it new!” then we must now tell ourselves, “Make it strange!” IL THE PLACE OF LITTLE MAGAZINES In my discussion of little magazines, I use “space” to indicate a landscape or geography of ...

Author: Adam McKible

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136067860

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 192

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This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.

Author: Andrew Thacker

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015056654919

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 245

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The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Adam McKible

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0415939801

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 185

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

... Eric White, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism; Adam McKible, The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York; Mark Morrisson, The Public Face of Modernism: ...

Author: M. Chambers

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137516923

Category: History

Page: 205

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After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers uncovers how poetry was shaped by avant-garde ideas, setting poetic trends for the 20th century.

Chapter 4 Time and Space The social , scientific and technological transformations and the psychological disruptions that took place at the end of the nineteenth century profoundly changed common perception and experience of time and ...

Author: Ástráður Eysteinsson

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

ISBN: 902723454X

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 1024

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The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.

And a classic perspectival landscape is no longer possible if one cannot assume a fixed position of the observer , outside of the frame . In terms of the relationship between space and place , it means that place can no longer be just a ...

Author: Carole Bourne-Taylor

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 3039114093

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 390

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From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and unsayable foundations of human perception and expression, prior to objective points of view and scientific notions. It is this aspect of modernism that this book brings to the fore. The essays presented here bring into focus the contemporary face of ongoing debates about phenomenology and modernism. The contributors forcefully underline the intertwining of modernism and phenomenology and the extent to which the latter offers a clue to the former. The book presents the viewpoints of a range of internationally distinguished critics and scholars, with diverse but closely related essays covering a wide range of fields, including literature, architecture, philosophy and musicology. The collection addresses critical questions regarding the relationship between phenomenology and modernism, with reference to thinkers such as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Michel Henry and Paul Ricoeur. By examining the contemporary philosophical debates, this cross-disciplinary body of research reveals the pervasive and far-reaching influence of phenomenology, which emerges as a heuristic method to articulate modernist aesthetic concerns.

The threshold is the definitive domestic space, creating domesticity by separating it from the space that is not home. ... Just as the threshold serves to define the space of home, it holds a similarly important place in modernist ...

Author: Mary Wilson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317026433

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 192

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In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking their movements across the architectural borders separating indoors and outdoors and across the physical doorways between rooms, Wilson illuminates the ways in which the servants who open doors symbolize larger social limits and exclusions, as well as states of consciousness. The relationship between female servants and their female employers is of particular importance in the work of female authors, for whom the home and the novel are especially interconnected sites of authorization and domestication. Modernist fiction, Wilson shows, uses domestic service to tame and interrogate not only issues of class, but also the overlapping distinctions of racial and ethnic identities. As Woolf, Stein, Larsen, and Rhys use the novel to interrogate the limitations of gendered domestic ideologies, they find they must deploy these same ideologies to manage the servant characters whose labor maintains the domestic spaces they find limiting. Thus the position of servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not just as characters, but as conditions for the production of literature and of the homes in which literature is created.

Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature Shawna Ross, James O'Sullivan ... Through its resemblance to the actual geography of Paris, Nightwood's conflation of space and place enables the partial elision of marginal experiences for ...

Author: Shawna Ross

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137595690

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 301

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This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature. From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture. With the publication of a variety of volumes that define and debate the digital humanities, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary history. Each of the case studies in this book emphasizes literary interpretation and engages with histories of textuality and new media, rather than dwelling on technical minutiae. Reading Modernism with Machines thereby intervenes critically in ongoing debates within modernist studies, while also exploring exciting new directions for the digital humanities—ultimately reflecting on the conjunctions and disjunctions between the technological cultures of the modernist era and our own digital present.

In this sense, modern space was a secular or de-spiritualising space which, as it proceeded to commodify space as private property or lots, worked to ruthlessly expunge the traditional gods and spirits associated with place from its ...

Author: Thomas Linehan

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230230118

Category: History

Page: 171

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Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements.

Literatures, Cultures, Spaces Professorial Fellow the Centre for Modernist Studies Peter Brooker, Peter Brooker, ... Other essays examine the view that place and location have meaning only in so far as they are always already ' written ...

Author: Professorial Fellow the Centre for Modernist Studies Peter Brooker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 0415331161

Category: Social Science

Page: 181

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This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the 20th century.