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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"literary modernism"”.
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Religious Mothers in Literary Modernism
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Pax Ecclesia: Globalization and Catholic Literary Modernism
<p>The transnational turn in literary studies has brought new rubrics and critical vocabularies to the study of cultures experiencing the destabilizing effects of globalization. It gives special attention to the ways cultural forms, including literature, must be reformulated in the absence of the …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… contrary to what is often suggested by scholars, modernism is not a moment of secularization and declining faith and that the Bible is actually a resource for mounting a radical critique of empire, nation-building, and racial oppression that defies conservative notions supporting those …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… complicates the long-established critique of modernism's ‘inward turn’. I ask: does depicting interior experiences entail the view that the mind is an isolated domain separated from the outside world? What is the relationship between the external and internal world that the modernists are …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… the fruitful interchanges between modernist literary technique, the culture of modernity, and children's literature. While some recent scholarship has examined works that modernist authors like Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Cummings produced for child readers, modernist children's literature …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… study explores the representation of the café in literary modernism. As its primary works range from the early 1900s to 1939, I have restricted my choice of exemplary writers in an effort to pay attention to issues of subject, style, and technique in greater detail than a survey would allow. …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… on the relationship of Hadjidakis with Greek literary modernism and its distinctive Greekness as well as with the literati associated with it, the so-called Generation of the '30s. My study of the contribution of Hadjidakis' theatrical works to the reformation of Greek popular music, on the …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
<p>Literary modernism followed a century during which philosophical speculations about the mechanistic basis of human life found experimental validation in the work of physiologists, who stressed the power of environment to shape and delimit thought and action. By the late 19th century, the …
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Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard: A COVID Novella in Modernist Iceland
… the distinct traditions, forms, and themes of literary modernism to reimagine how to write a love story during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard resists more conventional formal classifications, yet it can be considered a novella in three parts, each of which also stand …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… developments not as mere context to the rise of literary modernism; instead, I show how modernist modes of writing arise in conjunction with and in some cases in dialogue with developments in applied and theoretical mathematics. Bringing together these seemingly distinct fields of knowledge sheds …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… developments not as mere context to the rise of literary modernism; instead, I show how modernist modes of writing arise in conjunction with and in some cases in dialogue with developments in applied and theoretical mathematics. Bringing together these seemingly distinct fields of knowledge sheds …
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Liminal entities : transition and the 'space between' in the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf
The relationship between literary Modernism and the short story is a neglected area, particularly in terms of women's writing. Traditionally, critical interest in Virginia Woolf's novels and essays has tended to eclipse her short fiction, whilst the stories of Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair …
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Hermann Hesse as Ambivalent Modernist
… Hesse approaches the themes and techniques of literary Modernism with ambivalence. The first chapter outlines the role of philosophical and literary walking in Hesse's work in general as well as how these depictions differ from those produced by his predecessors. The second chapter takes …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… charge of the later avant-garde stage and of literary modernism. My dissertation, by contrast, argues that one element of the nineteenth-century stage survived and claimed a place at the heart of British modernism: the idea of the actor. In successive chapters stretching from 1897 to 1958, I …
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The postmodern structure of consciousness
… present a reductive definition of the concept of literary modernism. As such, I identify the metaphor of the postmodern structure of consciousness, as the best tool by which to both identify and understand postmodernism in its literary expression. This is done through an analysis of …
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… to a more general reflection in German literary modernism on a new estrangement and distance between human subjects and the external object-world. Responding to this perceived crisis, modernist texts by Rilke, Franz Kafka, and others present an animated life of things as a highly …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… of the world. They further share with literary modernism a reliance on parody, verbal play, and formal innovation. Because these works declare art’s autonomy, celebrate the perspective of the individual, and elevate an artistic understanding as the preeminent way of knowing, they …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… of the world. They further share with literary modernism a reliance on parody, verbal play, and formal innovation. Because these works declare art’s autonomy, celebrate the perspective of the individual, and elevate an artistic understanding as the preeminent way of knowing, they …
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The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
… spanning poetry, fiction, translation, and literary criticism, is re-evaluated through the lens of cultural brokerage, a concept rooted in anthropological discourse. The study delves into her impact on American literary modernism, her feminist literary contributions, and her pivotal role in …
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