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Return to Socialism; and Marx
This chapter explores Jack Lindsay’s transformation from aesthete to activist, particularly the influence of Giordano Bruno, through whose work he...
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The horror of censorship in fin-de-siècle Hungarian journalism
The freedom of the press was regarded as an important achievement and valuable heritage of the 1848 revolution in nineteenth-century Hungary. The...
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Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era
Cinematic narratives about scientific futures may reveal humanity’s deeply held aspirations regarding idealized lifeworlds. But when the role of...
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The Mechanics and Energetics of Soviet Communism: The Poetics of Peat
This essay by Robert Bird (1969–2020) shows how peat dramatized the difficulties Soviet artists faced in devising representational modes appropriate...
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Introduction—Why Compare the Irish Renaissance with the Chinese Renaissance?
This chapter questions how the Irish Revival provided an alternative route to the modern for the Chinese May Fourth writers, bypassing discourses on...
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Introduction: Energy Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union
This introduction to Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union outlines the cultural history of energy in the Russian...
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Art, Politics and Ideology
The Crisis in Marxism (1981) is a statement of Jack Lindsay’s mature position as a writer, critic and political activist. He begins the study by...
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The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918–1939
World War I not only changed the political map of Europe, but also unsettled or totally shattered many of the structures of prewar societies. As...
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The Energy Trap: Anna Karenina as a Parable for the Twenty-First Century
This essay explores Tolstoy’s engagement with nineteenth-century energy science in Anna Karenina (1875–1877). Jillian Porter shows that despite his...
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Chapter 5 Failure
This chapter focuses on Pound’s and Pasolini’s late work. It begins with considerations on the centrality of the palimpsest and fragment in their...
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The Early Nineteenth Century (1800–1850)
The nineteenth century, particularly in the United States, sees the great flowering of utopian literature and alternative living experiments. Things...
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People: The Starting Point and the Destination of Literary Criticism
The People is a primary concept of the Chinese form and is simultaneously the starting point and the destination of it. Inheriting historical...
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Neoliberalism and the ‘Recolonisation’ of Africa
This chapter sketches the broader context of these fictions of the African state under neoliberalism. It charts the neoliberal ‘counter-revolution’...
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One-Dimensional Society and Emancipatory Art
After highlighting the promising intersections between Marcuse’s theory of “one-dimensional society” and Fisher’s Capitalist Realism in the preceding...
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Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945–1989
Although still understudied in scholarship, the global spread of left-wing writing during the Cold War is central to any understanding of the...
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Do Australian Modernisms Strike Back? Still Har** on ‘Margins’
New modernist studies problematise the term ‘modernism’, its uses and abuses, therefore views on non-hierarchical modernist constellations exemplify...
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Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Behavioural Strategy
This exploration of the German novelist and poet Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) as a nature writer situates his seminal writings within the broader...
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Zum Selbstverständnis der rumänischen Literatur
Wer sich eingehender mit der rumänischen Literatur beschäftigt, stellt recht schnell fest, dass Fragen nach der eigenen Selbstverortung immer wieder...
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Russian Cities: A Summary History
This article is intended to give an introduction to Russian cities, indicating how they have been the basis for the development of a diverse urban...