Material Modernism draws on editorial theory, cultural studies and the history of the book to argue for a freshly historicized reading of modernism. Instead of taking texts as consisting of disembodied words, Bornstein considers their physical bodies as themselves semantically important. He argues that current constructions of literary modernism - like those that regard its achievements and attitudes as favoring the anti-historical over the historical, or product over process - are derived from the fixed, current, material forms of its texts. By studying modernism in its original sites of...
Material Modernism draws on editorial theory, cultural studies and the history of the book to argue for a freshly historicized reading of modernism. I...
From the foreword: "A sensitive recuperation of a past cultural moment and a contribution to our current one, Mishkin s study both participates in our present national conversation and prepares the way for future ones."
"Looks at literary movements on two different continents and from two different periods . . . and finds significant parallels and interrelations between them. The effect is to illuminate both. There is no other study like it, on this scale."--Richard Bizot, University of North Florida
Drawing fascinating comparisons between two literary movements for...
From the foreword: "A sensitive recuperation of a past cultural moment and a contribution to our current one, Mishkin s study both participates...
A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors of Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current...
A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Color...
W. B. Yeats's The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published in 1933 when Yeats was sixty-eight, ten years after he won the Nobel Prize and six years before his death in 1939. Yeats famously invoked in "Adam's Curse" the time he spent "stitching and unstitching" the lines of his work, but he also spent considerable time stitching and unstitching his poems to each other. The Winding Stair demonstrates that care, combining and reordering the poems of two earlier publications in an edition intended as the companion volume to The Tower, published in 1928. This Scribner...
W. B. Yeats's The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published in 1933 when Yeats was sixty-eight, ten years after he won the Nobel Prize and si...
This book argues that we can profitably understand the achievement of Ezra Pound as a postromantic phenomenon, particularly in terms of the mental action of his poetry. Rather than affix the label "romantic" to Pound's poetry, it demonstrates that a methodology self-consciously rooted in romanticism can provide fundamental insights into Pound's poetic theories and practices.
This book argues that we can profitably understand the achievement of Ezra Pound as a postromantic phenomenon, particularly in terms of the mental act...
