Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry. All three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today. This book tracks the transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics. Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the...

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner’s fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner’s language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this...

Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these “crip enchantments” are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the...

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world...

Die neue Edition von Carl Einsteins unveröffentlichtem Werk Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen bringt die beiden erhaltenen Fassungen und eröffnet mit Nachwort und ausführlichem Register eine neue, kritische Sicht auf die klassisch gewordene Moderne. In der Wirtschaftskrise der 30er Jahre verschärft Einstein (1885‒1940) die Kunst- und Gesellschaftskritik, die seine Schriften schon immer geprägt hatte, erneut. Seine Werke wie Bebuquin (1906‒1912), Negerplastik (1915), Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (1926, 1928, 1931) hatten Epoche gemacht. Nun aber widerruft...

Die Beiträge dieses Buches erfassen schöpferische und produktionsästhetische Aspekte der Gedichtbände Paul Celans. Sie verfolgen den dichterischen Arbeitsprozess von den ersten poetischen Einfällen bis zur Realisierung poetischer Ideen. Zeit und Umstände der Gedichtentstehung, ihre thematische Kongruenz, Buchtitel, Architektonik der Bände (Reihenfolge der Gedichte, ihre Zyklisierung, Zeilenkonfiguration) sowie Kontakte zu Verlagen, Briefwechsel mit Lektoren, Druck und Ausstattung der Gedichtbände spielen dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Das für Celans Dichtung immanent eigene...