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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Modernist Studies"”.
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Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism
… dissertation occurs at the intersection of modernist studies, new modernist studies, and theories of affirmation. In terms of modernist studies, I offer the first and long overdue sustained study of Pound's modernist battle-cry, "Make it new." In doing so, I argue that "make it new" is a …
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
… discipline” at the junction of queer theory and modernist studies, it examines how literary critics and queer theorists define modernity and conceptualize subjectivity at the secular limits (or limitations) of their fields. Imbrications of theology and queerness in the works of Eliot, Crane, and …
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Yi Sang and Global Modernism
… Korean. His work has been variously labelled as Modernist, Surrealist, and Dadaist. Despite the past fifty years of Yi scholarship acknowledging his stylistic and thematic affinities with Japanese modernists, Yi has typically been read as a specifically Korean, nationalistic figure who wrote …
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Uneven Ground: Figurations Of The Rural Modern In The U.S. South, 1890-1945
New modernist studies has opened wide the discussion about what modernism means, when it begins, and, compellingly for the purposes of this project, where it occurs. Exploring intersections between modernization, modernism, labor, and segregation in the agricultural South, this dissertation …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to …
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Echoes Inhabit the Garden: The Music of Poetry and Place in T.S. Eliot
… to situate him in recent critical debates in modernist studies regarding local, national, and transnational formations of culture and poetry, but concentrates the majority of its focus within Eliot’s work. It intends to mark the convergence of linguistic concerns and engagement with place …
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
… art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue that a decorative ethos lives on in modernist poetry. Many of the aesthetic features that we associate with modernist …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… century. This dissertation contends that through modernist French and European philosophies and literary movements such as surrealism, psychoanalysis, orientalism, and existentialism, queer American writers were able to imagine and express queer identity and desire in ways previously unspeakable …
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Brian O'Nolan's Multiple Selves: Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen and Addressing the National Culture of Ireland
… in new media. I combine Cultural and New Modernist Studies in an approach that labels O'Nolan a "bad" modernist because his multi-media and multi-genre works are precise and premeditated experiments in cosmopolitan as well as regional modernity. Moreover, I contend this "bad" modernist's …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
… of scholarship from both southern and noir studies as well as the beginnings of a reevaluation of two of the most distinctive narrative productions of twentieth century America: southern literature and film with romans noirs and films noirs.
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… represent a hitherto unrecognized strand of modernist and postwar conceptions of the audience‑actor relationship. Auden, for instance, viewed spectators as part of the “troupe,” stating that if “you are seeing and hearing you are co-operating.” Auden’s perspective differs greatly from other …