...Tim Scholl Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism. By Rhonda K. Garelick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 288 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS CAN THESE BONES LIVE? TRANSLATION, SURVIVAL...

...Liesl Yamaguchi Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media . By Bush Christopher . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . xxxi, 149 p . © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Implications of Literary...

... the perspective of a modern Hebrew poet and Orientalist scholar, Elhanan Yehuda Kron, who travels from Palestine to Berlin to pursue his research on the Islamic origins of Jewish mysticism. Through Kron 1 s experiences in Berlin in the 1930s, the novel calls attention to how the origin of modern secular Hebrew...

... (literally, “Anglo-Saxon,” but with the sense of “Anglophone or “modernism” (in quotation marks, with an explanation of the referent). Furthermore, the Brazilian avant-garde of the 1920s is also known in Portuguese and Spanish as modernismo, while still another Catalan movement was called modernisme...

...Shuang Shen This article discusses the uneven treatment of William Empson’s encounter with China. While Chinese accounts of Empson’s brief stay in China in the late 1930s present him as one of the progenitors of Chinese modernism, his second stay, during the founding of the People’s Republic...

... term: modernisme in French, unless it transposes the controversies of its English cognate, has rarely acquired autonomy in the field of aesthetics or literary criticism and remains tied directly to modernity ( Healey 801 ). In fact, to autonomize and to limit modernismo, as a concept...

... of writing energized by heterochronic entanglements, intertextual confrontation, and the intersecting age-driven assumptions of Yiddish literature and Anglo-American modernism. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 modernism T. S. Eliot Yankev Glatshteyn Yiddish...

...Stephen Arata Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvi, 297p. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. By Sara Danius. Ithaca: Cornell University Press...

...Katherine Stanton Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation. By Rebecca Walkowitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 204 p. University of Oregon 2008 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/186 BOOK REVIEWS OVID’S LOVERS...

....” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 54 (Fall 1999 ): 3 -4. Da Silva, Takei N. Modernism and Virginia Woolf . Windsor: Windsor Publications, 1990 . Dalgarno, Emily. Virginia Woolf and the Visible World . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 . Derrida, Jacques. “Des Tours de Babel.” Trans...

...Geoffrey Baker Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama. By Martin Puchner. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 234 p. University of Oregon 2004 BOOK REVIEWS/99...

...Karl Toepfer Body Ascendant. Modernism and the Physical Imperative. By Harold B. Segel. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 282 p. + 14 p. photographs. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/255...

...Salvador J. Fajardo Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . By Rogers Gayle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 283 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 232 In either case, Baroque Sovereignty...

...Rosa Mucignat Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice . By Scappettone Jennifer . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . 440 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 BOOK REVIEWS Killing the Moonlight: Modernism...

... . Ed. and Trans. Peter Samuel Donaldson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975 . Grady, Hugh. “Renewing Modernity: Changing Contexts and Contents of a Nearly Invisible Concept.” Shakespeare Quarterly 50 . 3 ( 1999 ): 268 -84. ____. Shakespeare's Universal Wolf: Studies in Early...

...Michael Bell Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World. By Ricardo J. Quinones. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xvi, 451 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS ESTRANGEMENT AND THE SOMATICS OF LITERATURE...

... a step along the road from magical thinking, to myth, to that mathematical abstraction or sense of the interchangeability of things and individuals that is a hallmark of the oppressive modern state. We hear of other accounts as well. Sir James Frazer explains sacrifices as mimetic guar- antees...

...Timothy J. Van Compernolle The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States. By Rebecca Suter. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. x, 236 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS CAN...

...Eric M. Mac Phail Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. By Timothy Hampton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 235 p. University of Oregon 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Se c u r i n g t h e Pa s t : Co n...

...Kevin Newmark This essay considers Baudelaire's “Le Cygne” in terms of the crucial place the poem should occupy in any theoretical reflection on literary and historical “modernity.” Despite the proliferation in recent years of references to Walter Benjamin in the reception of Baudelaire's poetry...