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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedT.S. Eliot was captivated by marine life forms, particularly creatures that cling. From the "ragged claws" of ancient crustaceans to the firm foothold of the "delicate algae and the sea anemone, "Eliot's writing is full...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLate in his artistic and scholarly career, W.G. Sebald decided to eschew then-emergent modes of computational media in favor of analogue production techniques. Sebald himself often remarked on his encounters with media,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange, Rebecca Colesworthy shows how modernist women writers placed the concept of the gift at the center of their aesthetic projects and used it to interrogate the...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDavid Foster Wallace's fiction often depicts the reception of unsettling avant-garde artworks; it also makes use of similar strategies to those that it depicts. The short story "Octet" can be seen to pose a question...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWilla Cather's The Song of the Lark (1915) critically revises late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropology to form an aesthetics of materiality. The works of anthropologists such as Otis Mason and Lewis...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedT.S. Eliot and Organicism examines the poet's relationship with the organic husbandry movement and reveals his active role in advocating its ideas. It demonstrates how he used his authority as an editor and publisher to...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis issue of JML, titled New Materialisms, is the first to be completed with its new editorial collective. In January 2022, Paula Marantz Cohen retired from her tenure as a co-editor of JML. Throughout the decades of...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe narrator-protagonist of Aleksandr Ivanov's novella "Stereoscope. A Twilight Story" (1909) stumbles upon a portal into a three-dimensional photographic world--the uncanny "bygone spaces" that cause him to veer between...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedToni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, when seen from the perspective of "thing theory" and other new materialist discourses, challenges the dominant anthropocentric mode of relationship between humans and things. In the novel,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCritics often identify the Ramsays' kitchen table from To the Lighthouse (1927) as the principal object of philosophical inquiry in Virginia Woolf's work, but their accounts have never taken the Ramsays' table-cloth into...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe motif of studying faces and portrait photographs is important in Virginia Woolf's novels. She uses the technique of showing seeing to highlight the characters' emotional engagement with faces and portraits and to...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Animate Literacies, Nathan Snaza offers productive alternatives to literacy, literature, and being that avoid disciplinary institutions while allowing space for the human and nonhuman to experiment and move together....
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNew insights emerge when James Agee's Depression-era epic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is considered through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology. Both OOO and Agee's text cultivate an ethical disposition that manifests...