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...CALVIN BEDIENT Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 1 DAVID PERKINS. A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1976, xv + 623 pp. $17.50. ROUND...

... to Dionysus: A Nietuchean Current in Literary Modernism. By JOHN BURT FOSTER,JR. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xiv + 474 pp. $27.50. In view of the staggering task Foster has set himself, this monograph, de- spite some very real flaws, represents a remarkable and compelling...

...Heath Moon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 SAVING JAMES FROM MODERNISM HOW TO READ THE SACRED FOUNT By HEATHMOON The subject for decades of the most painstaking analysis, The Sacred Fount, one would expect...

...George W. Umphrey Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 FIFTY YEARS OF MODERNISM IN SPANISH-AMERICAN POETRY By GEORGEW. UMPHREY It is the consensus of literary critics that Modernism in Span- ish literature began in 1888...

... in which one can strike gold. JOSEPH W~ESENFARTH University of Wisconsin, Madison The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought. By SANFORDSCHWARTZ. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 235 pp...

...Paula Rabinowitz New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State . By Michael Szalay. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,2000. 343 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson...

...: Modernism, Poetry, and Truth Ella Zohar Ophir aura Riding, a name long obscure, has in the last few years made a L number of signifi cant reappearances. Vassiliki Kolocotroni’s Mod- ernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documentss (1998), a successor to the classic Backgrounds of Modern...

...Vivian Liska The Difficulties of Modernism . By Leonard Diepeveen. New York:Routledge, 2003. xviii + 318 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Vivian Liska is professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp. Her books...

...Timothy Materer Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics . By Marjorie Perloff. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ix + 222 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Timothy Materer is professor of English at the University of Missouri. His most recent book is James Merrill's...

...Marina MacKay © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Marina MacKay is assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is writing a book about British modernism in the Second World War. Putting the House in Order: Virginia Woolf and Blitz Modernism...

...Patricia Juliana Smith University of Washington 2006 Patricia Juliana Smith is associate professor of English at Hofstra University. She is author of Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction (1997), editor of The Queer Sixties (1999), and coeditor of En...

... Literatures in English (2006). University of Washington 2007 The Influence of Post-modernism on Contemporary Writing: An Interdisciplinary Study . By David Punter. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2005. xii + 358 pp. Reviews The Grounds of English Literature. By Christopher Cannon. Oxford...

...Ming Dong Gu Although Lu Xun (1881–1936) produced all his literary works in a period that coincided with the heyday of Western modernism (1910–30), scholars both inside and outside China have made few attempts to study them in the international context of the modernist movement. Because of Lu Xun's...

...Jan Sjåvik Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy . By Toril Moi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi + 396 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Jan Sjåvik is professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington. His recent...

..., Modernism. By MARIANNE DEKOVEN.Prince- ton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xiii t 248 pp. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Marianne DeKoven’s Rich and Strange: Gendet; History, Modernism draws from a range of powerful critical traditions and engages the debates over modernism anew...

.... It is at such moments that DeKoven’s own utopian fantasies blur so completely with Conrad’s that the task of deci- phering the text becomes more or less impossible. If this is what it takes to make modernism a culturally progressive force, then DeKoven’s book may inadvertently drive a few sturdy nails...

... of the vol- ume’s length. Instead of concluding, therefore, the argument’s main drift mainly drifts; conclusion itself becomes secondary. I take it that this dilation reinforces Jameson’s admirable inconclusiveness through- out his book about whether postmodernism arises after modernism ends...

... study’s agony about the relation of poetry-indeed of art in general-to social and political liberation. The wait is not surprising, however, given that Altieri proposes and expounds the centrality of aes- thetic modernism to the prospects of freedom. For by attaching itself to modernism, his...

...Michael Szalay Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Michael Szalay is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at The Johns Hopkins University, and is currently completing his dissertation, titled “New Deal Modernism.” Szalay is assistant editor at ELH . Inviolate...

... the racial masquerade of modernism into a displacement of the dichotomies themselves” ( 195). But, North reminds us, fully appreciating such work requires a shift from the usual attention to the subject matter in African American writing to the cultural work done by experiments in tech- nique...