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Aerial bombing and catastrophic modernism
This article approaches the narration of catastrophe by focusing on the aerial bombing of cities during the Second World War as represented in...
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Poe: Poeta Ludens
The fact that Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot discerns a “puerile” (1949, 327) quality in Edgar Allan Poe’s work in “From Poe to Valéry” does not come as a...
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Introduction
When I began to think about editing this collection, echoes of the 100th anniversary celebrations of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Founding and...
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“Quis hic locus”: Spatial Critical Theory in Modernist London
On September 8, 1914, Tom Eliot wrote two almost identical letters to his brother Henry and his friend Eleanor Hinkley about recently arriving in...
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Evergreen Review, 1957–1984: Beckett and the American ‘Underground’
This chapter offers a complete account of Beckett’s publication history in the Grove Press journal Evergreen Review, including significant...
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The Sonification of Modernist Fiction: A Critical Review
This chapter contextualizes the historical and aesthetic era of high modernist fiction (1918–1939) by focusing specifically on its multimodal and...
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Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity
Mathematics has been a significant theme in modern German literature. This chapter traces the paradoxes of the mathematical infinite and how they...
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Masochism, literature, and aesthetic form
Drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of masochism as an obsession with a perfect form, this essay argues that masochism offers...
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Introduction: Crazy Stone Phenomenon and Chinese Neo-noir Comedies
This chapter functions as an introduction to this mini book, which focuses on the postmodern Crazy Stone phenomenon emerged in recent Chinese...
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Modernist Poetics in China Consumerist Economics and Chinese Literary Modernism
This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the...
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The White Spot
There are probably few literary texts about which so much research has been and continues to be done as Heart of Darkness. Hailed by contemporaries...
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Prelude: Rehumanization Craziness and Traditional Noir
Contrasting the Crazy Stone phenomenon of 2006, the cultural craziness showcased in the 1980s had a different era feel. Instead of sarcastic...
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The Long Goodbye: World War I, Romantic Nostalgia, and Chivalry’s Endless Death
In this chapter I provide evidence that romance, as both genre and ideology, survived both World War I and the rise of competing modes like modernism...
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Introduction: Towards an Animal-Centred Literary History
This chapter introduces the study of animals and human–animal relations relations in literature through an examination of the rich and varied...
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Introduction: Relationships and Connections Between Literature and Mathematics
This chapter introduces the five parts of the Handbook and charts the development of the field of Literature and Mathematics Studies. It sets out the...
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Epilogue
This chapter considers the impact of the modernist crisis in theology on contemporary philosophy, cultural criticism, print culture, and literary...
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John Updike in Serbia
This chapter examines the rationale for teaching the works of John Updike in Serbia. The first part, written by Biljana Dojčinović, outlines the...
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Modernist Circumnavigations Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake
This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Dayschanged the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a...
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Introduction
In his 1908 review of A Set of Six, Robert Lynd famously referred to Conrad as ‘a homeless person’, ‘without either country or language’. Lynd...
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“Donnerwetter, das ist famos”
This article focuses on the depiction, representation, and construction of female characters in the media of the 1930s. Sofie Schieker-Ebe’s youth...