Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading

Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading
Author: Stephen Ross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350185825

Introducing readers to a new theory of 'responsible reading', this book presents a range of perspectives on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory. Emerging from a collaborative process of comment and response, it promotes conversation among disparate views under a shared commitment to responsible reading practices. An international range of contributors question the interplay between modernism and theory today and provide new ways of understanding the relationship between the two, and the links to emerging concerns such as the Anthropocene, decolonization, the post-human, and eco-theory. Promoting responsible reading as a practice that reads generously and engages constructively, even where disagreement is inevitable, this book articulates a mode of ethical reading that is fundamental to ongoing debates about strength and weakness, paranoia and reparation, and critique and affect.

Reading on the Edge

Reading on the Edge
Author: Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2000-05-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0791492788

Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each author's work while at the same time redrawing modernism's traditionally Eurocentric disciplinary boundaries. The book therefore has wide implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.

Modernism and Copyright

Modernism and Copyright
Author: Paul K. Saint-Amour
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199731535

How was modernism shaped, from its beginning, by intellectual property law? What role did the law's imperial and transatlantic asymmetries play in modernism's dissemination? How did various modernists exploit, reform, anoint, and evade copyright? And how is the study of modernism today being affected by expanding copyright regimes?Modernism and Copyright is the first book to take up these questions. A truly multi-disciplinary study, it brings together essays by scholars of literature, theater, cinema, music, and law as well as by practicing lawyers and caretakers of modernist literary estates. Its contributors' methods are as diverse as the works they discuss: Ezra Pound's copyright statute and Charlie Parker's bebop compositions feature here, as do early Chaplin films, EverQuest, and the Madison Avenue memo. As our portrait of modernism expands and fragments, Modernism and Copyright locates works such as these on one of the few landscapes they all clearly share: the uneven terrain of intellectual property law.

The New Modernist Studies

The New Modernist Studies
Author: Douglas Mao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108487068

The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.

Key Concepts in Modernist Literature

Key Concepts in Modernist Literature
Author: Julian Hanna
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1350310344

Introducing the dynamic study of a literary period stretching from 1900 to the Second World War, the book reflects the exciting mix of European avant-garde, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and regional voices within Britain. Three distinct sections explore the major concepts, themes and issues that characterise the literature.

Modernism and Morality

Modernism and Morality
Author: M. Halliwell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230502733

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Christopher Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0192804413

A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780860917854

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Fun Home

Fun Home
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618871711

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.