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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThroughout Lamentations (2017), a volume of translation from Irish as well as original compositions, Paul Muldoon reworks the poetics of the traditional Irish caoineadh (keen, lament). Rangingfrom a cry of the...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRead in light of French philosopher Lucien Levy-Bruhl's How Natives Think (1910), Ezra Pound's comments on Chinese language and the color red in his ABC of Reading (1934) put him in a linguistic tradition that became...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn important inspiration for T.S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday is the minstrel comedy of The Two Black Crows. Both puzzling and obscure, this inspiration has not yet received the critical attention it deserves. By reading...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFrank Stanford was an Arkansas-based poet who produced a substantial corpus of poetry through the 1970s. His best-known work, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (1977), narrates the ways that mass media...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBlackface minstrelsy is a major presence in John Berryman's The Dream Songs. Critics have debated whether Berryman's use of blackface minstrel conventions undermines or reproduces the racist ideological work of this...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSusan Howe's use of raw personal experience in her 2010 volume That This should be understood as part of her interdisciplinary investigation into the work of some of her central inspirations: Charles Sanders Peirce,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCAConrad instructs readers to perform a range of private and public actions in the prose they publish as part of their (soma)tic poetry rituals. The poet has already performed these actions, and their poems document the...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCharles Reznikoff assembles Testimony: The United States (1885-1915): Recitative from three decades of court witness reports. Stemming from his legal experience and his family history of loss, Reznikoff's methods of...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBoth in his poems and his letters, Rainer Maria Rilke presents himself as a passionate apologist for gentleness--to such a degree that, as he repeatedly insists, even one's own death should be gently borne and affirmed...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Modernist" culture is a complex constellation of cultural phenomena--the qualities of economic goods based upon desire rather than need, aesthetics and experiential values, horizons of possible ways to understand the...