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From:European Judaism (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In a speculatively intertextual way, Bruno Schulz's disappeared manuscript The Messiah re-appears in Cynthia Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) and See Under: Love by David Grossmann (1989). Deeply...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMany early twentieth-century authors now associated with protomodernist or modernist experimentation appeared initially in weekly or monthly journals before proceeding to book form, partly as a matter of economic...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, the critical understanding of literary modernism has undergone much revision. We no longer perceive modernism simply as a reaction to the devastation of the First World War and the constraining morality...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on the literary work and critical reception of modernist and experimental writer, Jane Bowles. Topics discussed include the legends associated with Bowles' avant-garde career, biographical approaches...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPostmodernistcritics characterize the modernist aesthetic as an extension of the humanist philosophy in the way it attempts to represent supposedly universal human concerns. This criticism has been likened to the attack...
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From:Woolf Studies Annual (Vol. 18) Peer-ReviewedVirginia Woolf did not include the maps in Orlando (1928) that she suggested she might in a letter to Vita Sackville-West, or the "poem. Something about an island. landscape. dream. people with canoes. the trees" that...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMarina MacKay's Modernism, War, and Violence offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which modernist writers responded to the violence of their historical moment. In addition, MacKay shows how critics in recent...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite generic and philosophical distinctions, the elegies of Rainer Maria Rilke and Virginia Woolf embody a modernist poetics of insufficiency, one which remains endlessly open to death. Death, The Duino Elegies and...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWriting in 1919, critic Louis Untermeyer reflected that "poetry was enjoying 'boom times'" in the second decade of the century: Poetry magazines were breaking out everywhere. Prizes were blossoming on every bush;...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 62, Issue 1-3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction When W. S. Graham died in 1986, he died in neglect. And yet in 2018, his centenary year, Graham's reputation seems assured. Over the three decades since his death, it has been a commonplace to lament,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHistoricist critics of modernism characterize modernist claims about abstraction, impersonality, and autonomy as escapist denials of a plausible realism. This essay uses examples from the visual arts--Pissarro, Cezanne,...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReading letters sent by "average readers" in response to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, this article not only revises the reception history of the novel but also suggests the early-twentieth-century reader's...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedVirginia Woolf entangles time and topography in Mrs. Dalloway to reveal that her characters inhabit a relative London. Marking the Great War as the historical event dividing an old world order from the new, she creates...
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From:The New York Times Book Review''An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.'' So goes Virginia Woolf's...
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From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 21, Issue 1)For me, being a poet in everyday life is like walking through the pages of a life-size, interactive novel. Psychoanalysis--which I undertook in my mid-forties in classical form (four days a week on the couch with a...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUpon arrival in that stinking grotty modern world of Van Diemen's Land in the stinking late summer heat, all hideous new sandstone warehouses and customs houses and chaingangs and redcoats, I was assigned to Palmer the...
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From: Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Wutz investigates the ways in which The Waterworks examines the economic and social problems related to the data collection methods in a post-bellum society, focusing in...
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From: Feminism and Science Fiction[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Lefanu discusses Russ as a literary modernist who uses the conventions of modernism to convey the politics of feminism and the deconstruction of gender roles in her fiction.]...
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From: South Central Review[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Mortimer probes the nature of perception in The Golden Apples by focusing on the essence of difference and sameness embodied by the MacLain twins.] A narrative feature...
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From: Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Gifford traces modernist influences in The Alexandria Quartet. He posits that although the work’s unconventional shifts in time and point of view align it with modernist...