Modernism (Literature)

"Aidan Higgins," Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2003 Vol. XXIII, no. 3: 49-84.

by neil murphy

Visions of Jewish Modernism

by Barbara Mann

‘Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory’: The Cinematic Adaptation of American Poetry

by Michael Devine

Adaptation 5.1 (March 2012): 1-17

This essay reconstructs a forgotten crisis in American letters and film: President Theodore Roosevelt's unpopular... more This essay reconstructs a forgotten crisis in American letters and film: President Theodore Roosevelt's unpopular campaign to make ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ the nation's poem in 1908 and the poem's popular film adaptation in 1911. As the cinematic response to poetry's failure as a national art, the Vitagraph film became a collectivist hymnal for the nation's dream of assimilation. Featured prominently in American poet Vachel Lindsay's pioneering work of film theory, The Art of the Moving Picture (1915), the adaptation effectively reasserted the popular roots of the otherwise genteel ‘Battle Hymn’ poem and by doing so helped to modernize poetry's communal function and the nation's literary tradition.

The Representation Of The Object As The Other In Modernism/Postmodernism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

by Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover

'Facta Universitatis',  2011

This paper deals with the complex relationship of the modern psychoanalytic subject to his object which is both a... more This paper deals with the complex relationship of the modern psychoanalytic subject to his object which is both a material embodiment of the subject in representation (art and literature) and a metaphysical form of the subject as absence. The space of the subject in the world of objects is illustrated through an analysis of Surrealist art and poetry and the continuation of the paradigm in postmodern forms of representation, for which Andrei Voznesensky's poem "Oza" serves as an example.
Key words: Materiality of the object in Surrealism, desire, Voznesensky's Oza, the represented object as substitution for the Lacanian ‘real" and the Freudian Id, the unrepresentable objet-petit-a, the Self as difference and ‘lost' object.

“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie"

by Michael Subialka

PSA: The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXIII (2010); pp. 11-43.

Por uma Historiografia do Modernismo: O Caso da Competitividade nas Literaturas Anglófonas

by Gustavo Vargas Cohen

The present text brings and comments on a series of dichotomies and conflicts that ravaged the English language... more The present text brings and comments on a series of dichotomies and conflicts that ravaged the English language modernists. The context of creation of their works is introduced
and external conflicts are highlighted, such as the world wars and their social, cultural and artistic implications, so as to reach the internal conflicts, those motivated by the anxiety and the disorientation that stemmed from that turbulent era and that generated a number of injurious observations among writers, i.e., the invectives which are the focus of this investigation. Based on oral and printed documents, this sagacious, oftentimes unhealthy, competition explored by Anglophone Modernists the likes of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams, among others, is presented through the search of a balance between historical-scientific rigor and good humor.

Václav Havel dans le miroir de Samuel Beckett

by Llewellyn BROWN

A short study of Beckett's play "Catastrophe", dedicated to Václav Havel.

Beckett's play "Catastrophe" is not simply a denunciation of soviet-style despotism: both Protagonist and... more Beckett's play "Catastrophe" is not simply a denunciation of soviet-style despotism: both Protagonist and Director are facets of a single subjective structure. Thus the play explores the notion of resistance insofar as the latter concerns the way a subject faces up to his own fundamental solitude.

A construção da forma n'A Hora da Estrela, de Clarice Lispector.

by Daniela Spinelli

A POSIÇÃO DO NARRADOR, RODRIGO SM, EM A HORA DA ESTRELA, DE CLARICE LISPECTOR

by Daniela Spinelli

Modernism, Climate Change and Dystopia: An ecocritical reading of light symbology in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Eliot's "The Waste Land"

by Geoff Berry

Para uma Estética Pessoana

by Maria de Fatima Lambert

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia - tomo XLIII - 3-4 (1987)

Uma "possível" estética Pessoana, pode-se deduzir não apenas dos seus escritos acerca desta temática, como... more Uma "possível" estética Pessoana, pode-se deduzir não apenas dos seus escritos acerca desta temática, como também da própria vertente poético/plástica da sua poesia ortónima e heterónima, e as confidências do Livro do Desassossego. Destes poemas e desta prosa "artística" e "ontológica" emerge uma imagética que se aproxima de elementos específicos das tendências estéticas, dos movimentos e correntes que foram seus contemporâneos: Cubismo e Futurismo, chegados do exterior; Sensacionismo e Interseccionismo teorizados pelo próprio Pessoa, ele mesmo, e Álvaro de Campos.

Cyberdylan: A Poet in the Electric Age

by Ivan Phillips

This was originally presented as a paper at the Dylan Thomas Symposium, The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in July 2000. It was subsequently printed, in a slightly different form and under a different title, in The Times Literary Supplement:

Phillips, Ivan (2003) 'I sing the bard electric – Dylan Thomas, a poet for the age of mass media'. The Times Literary Supplement. 19 September. 14-15.

Enbarkment and Entrapment: Reading Images of Mobility and Isolation as Narrative Framework in The Great Gatsby

by Christopher Criswell

Mrs. Dalloway’s Existential Temporality

by Jason Wakefield

The disambiguation of Martin Heidegger’s conception of time can be found profoundly in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway,... more The disambiguation of Martin Heidegger’s conception of time can be found profoundly in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, which will be my primary text. Hegel’s thoughts on time are analysed by Heidegger in a sustained manner from pages 428 to 436 of Being and Time. The charactor Septimus in Mrs Dalloway can be thought of (in this Heideggerian context) as setting himself free for death, throwing back upon his factical there or factical presence. Paradoxically, He takes over his thrownnesswith a moment of vision for his time. This is authentic, finite temporality, turning his fate into authentic historicality.

EE Cummings's Tom: A Ballet and Uncle Tom's Doll-Dance of Modernism

by Michael Chaney

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Journal of Modern Literature 34.2 (2011): 22-44.

Myths and Legends; 'Modernist' Malayalam Novels in English Translation

by Manu Sudhakar Kurup

Research Work

This essay is based on my analysis of three famous novels written in Malayalam - The Legends of Khasak and The Saga of... more This essay is based on my analysis of three famous novels written in Malayalam - The Legends of Khasak and The Saga of Dharmapuri by O.V Vijayan, and On the Banks of the Mayyazhi by M. Mukundan.

The dreams of a ‘community/society’ are related to their homeland. The importance of a particular ‘place’ has been of great importance in Malayalam literature ever since novel, as a genre, started taking the paths of Modernism. Here, in most of these novels, the importance of ‘place’ is asserted using certain myths and legends. The novelists created specific ‘landscapes’ to moor the idea that we are all finally rooted to our definite ‘locations’. Of course, this was influenced by the Modernist writings in Europe, like Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce etc. As most literary historians agree, late nineteenth century fiction marks the beginning of European Modernism . If 'place' is an element of space, narrative space can be defined as the fictional universe presented by the narrative discourse.

The Belated Tradition of Asian‐American Modernism

by delia konzett

The I as Such: Vladimir Maiakovskii's Ia!

by Jacob Edmond

Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 16.1-2 (2002): 41-54.

From Pathos to Parody: Ambivalent Antithesis and Echoes of ‘Vychožu odin ja na dorogu’ in ‘Obraz tvoj mučitel'nyj i zybkij’ and ‘Zolotoj’ from Osip Mandel'štam’s Kamen'

by Jacob Edmond

Russian Literature 58.3–4 (2005): 357–73.

Not The Well - Radclyffe Hall's Unpublished Short Fiction

by Jana Funke

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