...Robert L. Caserio Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction . By Michaela Bronstein . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xv + 268 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 “Reading” is a mode of criticism, as recent trends—distant reading, surface...

...Nicholas Birns Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture . By Paul Giles . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . vi + 310 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Fifty years ago one of the truisms of academic studies of literary modernism...

... Modernist poetics can be said to be based on crucial anti-Romantic arguments by William James ( 2019 ) and (differently) by F. H. Bradley ( 2012 ) that subjectivity is not a fundamental feature of how we open on to the world. We begin with the facts of experience. Voicing then gets subsumed within...

...Mary Ann Gillies Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THOMAS HARDY MODERNIST POET By MARY ANN GILLIES In 1972 Donald Davie claimed that “in British poetry of the last fifty years (as not in American) the most...

.... Robert H. Bell Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Mod- ernism. By Charles Altieri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 529 PP. $49.50- Charles Altieri’s book still waits to be recognized as the best recent inter- vention in literary...

...Anita Patterson © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-04Patterson.final 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 651 Jazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes Anita Patterson n 1940 Richard Wright, praising Langston...

.... But this is a relatively minor criticism. Her thesis is convincing, is argued clearly and gracefully, and is a valuable addition to Howells studies. ALLENF. STEIN North Carolina State University Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense...

...Melanie Micir Abstract Reading Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life (2013) in the context of theories of the historical novel (Georg Lukács, Fredric Jameson) and counterfactual fiction (Catherine Gallagher, Andrew Miller, Paul Saint-Amour) sheds light on an overlooked genealogy of the feminist modernist...

... during the flowering of women’s literature in English in the nineteenth century. In a postscript on Virginia Woolf, Homans holds out wistful faith in a modernist, nonrepresentational art that fully figures forth the feminine. But her book shows that nineteenth-cen- tury women writers did...

... challenges received understandings of the linguistic purchase of modernist innovation. The author examines Hebrew and Yiddish modernist literary texts by Devorah Baron and Dovid Bergelson that employ nonreferential indexicality in order to chart the ruptures in two textual communities, in two particular...

..., and Manifestos (2008); and coeditor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2005). She is working on a book about the modern epic. Race and the Modernist Imagination . By Seshagiri Urmila . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xiii + 251 pp. © 2011 by University...

...Katherine Elkins This essay explores a modernist revision of influence distinct from a Bloomsian model of struggle and misprision. Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf articulate new representations of composite memory that suggest an alternative. When memories of past works collide with a changed...

...Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Abstract The Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscience , his most famous novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s...

...Peter Kalliney Abstract Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of decolonization in anglophone Africa. An archival examination of Black Orpheus , Transition , the Transcription Centre, and the African Writers of English Expression conference...

...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...

... Gavin Douglas in the later translations of Arnaut, Pound’s practice enters into dialogue with broader modernist questions concerning vernacular, regional, or nonstandard usage: what Robert Crawford calls the “provincial” modernist assault on England as cultural and linguistic center of the anglophone...

... fictional movement against casteism, atrocity, and historical elision has effectively embraced the ideologies of realism while developing a strident critique of modernist aesthetics. This essay deconstructs that realist turn by tracing it through the question of caste. Gajarawala reads the present embrace...

...Petra Dierkes-Thrun The familiar scholarly view of Richard Strauss's modernist opera Salome is that it overturns the original aesthetics of its libretto source, Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist-decadent drama. A close reconsideration of the presumed opposition between the two works, however, shows...

... of interpretation at all has been a constant in the history of criticism. Interpretation has coincided only with periods in which literature as “secular scripture” was considered at once culturally important and difficult to understand—and not even always then, as modernist texts aimed to constitute their own...

...Shaj Mathew Abstract This essay proposes the theory of multiple simultaneous temporalities as a constitutive feature of global modernism. It spotlights varieties of heterogeneous time—outside but alongside the homogeneous empty time of clocks and calendars—in modernist literature. These overlapping...