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The Knights of Modernism The Chivalric Ideal in the World Novel of the 20th Century
According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the...
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The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods
In The Woman Movement (1909), Swedish feminist Ellen Key reports on the “continual inner struggle” faced by Western women since at least the late...
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Gladiators in the Century of Progress: The World’s Fairs, Pulp Modernism and Popular Contests of the 1930s
This chapter focuses on the development of popular culture during the Depression decade and the consequences of the explosion of mass cultural forms...
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Sublime Politics: Coleridge’s On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829) and Jacques Rancière’s Aisthesis (2011)
Chapter 5 “Sublime Politics” explores Coleridge’s idea of the “clerisy” or National Church in On the...
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Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature
This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde....
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Conclusion
World literature as a concept and a field of study goes back to the middle of the nineteenth century, but for much of its history it has slumbered in...
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Introduction
To introduce this volume of essays, we reexamine Samuel Beckett’s poetics of failure in terms of perseverance, sketching how it evokes and answers...
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‘To-Day and To-Morrow’: Modernism and Futurology
With the advent of technological modernity, mythological, apocalyptic, or millenarian prophecies are replaced by a new form of imagined future: more...
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The Dialectics of Revery: Daydreaming and the (Un)Fair City, 1794–1922
This chapter begins by dwelling on the correlation between beauty and justice within the notion of the ‘fair’ city, with particular emphasis on the...
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Between Nation and World: Semi-Peripheral Nationalism and Global Capitalism in Halldór Laxness’s The Atom Station and William Heinesen’s The Black Cauldron
Chapter two progresses the arguments about national allegory and form advanced in chapter one, by exploring the relationship between nationalism,...
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Afterword Fei Jian Dan 非简单: A Concluding Note—The Non-simplicities of Culture
This short, three-page chapter sums up the book as a whole by describing how modernist poetics was examined in relation to three aspects of...
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Introduction
This introduction discusses Beckett’s many addresses to his imagined interpreters both within and outside his work. It considers how these...
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The Longing for a Line: Modernism Meets the New Deal
This chapter takes a sideways glance at some surprising and at times fractious relations between radical authors and classical composers who, in...
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Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities Paper Processors
While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic...
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Yeats’s Reception in China: How Chinese May Fourth Writers Translated Yeats and the Irish Revival
This chapter assesses how Chinese May Fourth writers translated the Irish Revival and Yeatsian plays, poetry, and critical writings for various...
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Beckett Ongoing Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics
“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of...
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‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Develo** the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room
In moving from the paratextual aspects of Woolf’s early hand-printed works to the linguistic interior of her first novel at the Hogarth Press,...
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Henry Miller and Modernism The Years in Paris, 1930–1939
Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930–1939represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to...
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Introduction: (Re)Map** the Post-War British Literary Landscape
This introductory chapter situates post-war experimental fiction by women writers who have remained largely overlooked within the British literary...
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Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the Technologies of Modernism
In his 2006 novel Against the Day, set around the turn of the twentieth century, Thomas Pynchon renegotiates his relationship with modernism. His...