The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.

Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers in their work. In doing so, they made possible the most radical representational strategies of modern literature, which emerged from their attack on the privilege of standard language....

This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modernism but which served as the cradle for a host of major political and aesthetic transformations resonating around the...

Im Zeitalter von Globalisierung und Finanzkrise erscheint eine Besinnung auf die Grundlagen unseres Geldes geboten. Diese Kleine Geschichte des Geldes hilft zu verstehen, daß Kapitalströme noch nie auf den nationalen Rahmen beschränkt waren, sondern in einem weit verzweigten, nicht erst heute globalen Austausch standen. Im historischen Vergleich wird der Eurobesitzer zu schätzen wissen, daß er gegenwärtig in Europa eine unvergleichlich lange Zeit der Geldwertstabilität genießt.