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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPhilip Roth's oeuvre demonstrates a consistent historico-political preoccupation with America, though it becomes pronounced in his late works--the American Trilogy comprising American Pastoral (1997), I Married a...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor the most part, the scholarship on T.S. Eliot's faith and Bolo writings fail to explain the significance of his Bolovian Christianity. Eliot's Bolo writings played an important role in his conversion to...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe New Ezra Pound Studies, exploring the latest developments in Pound scholarship, makes use of recently discovered primary texts and new methodological approaches in associated fields from gender studies to medieval...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe scrivener presents a curious case--writing the law and bringing it into existence via the material reproduction of legal instruments. Our most famous literary example is Melville's Bartleby, forever immortalized by...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGiven the energy with which E.M. Forster's Howards End sermonizes about the value of personal relation, it's puzzling that the relationship the novel proves most able to sustain is one between a pair of biological...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMarcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu figures same-sex desire as a minimal form of social connectedness, in which contingency affords a sufficient basis for sociality. In the social worlds that Proust called...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTime and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine examines the history of interwar Britain's only weekly review to be owned and controlled solely by women. Through close reading of the magazine's...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVachel Lindsay's theories of primitive verse and the Higher Vaudeville were crucial to modernist ideas about the intersections of race, orality, and the social function of poetry. Through poems like "The Firemen's Ball"...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe recent intellectual recovery of nostalgia as a politically progressive form of the historical imagination lays the groundwork for its re-examination in the context of modernity. Progressive modern nostalgia goes...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedReviewers and critics of Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk (2014) tend to focus on the text's treatment of grief and falconry. None has attended to the myriad inter-textualities in the memoir. H Is for Hawk is a...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWyndham Lewis's anecdotal, amused approach to narrating his war experience in Blasting and Bombardiering parodies the style of service-author stories, the tales published by servicemen during the Great War that are often...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedW.G. Sebald suggests that "there can be something like a physiology of literature, that is, that our embodiment and the way we move our body can be transferred to literature." His The Rings of Saturn belongs among a...