...Max Brzezinski This article evaluates the methods and ideological positions that define the critical movement known as the New Modernist Studies (NMS). It treats the NMS as characteristic of recent attempts to politicize aesthetics within the corporate university. The piece argues that the NMS has...

...Martin Puchner In response to Max Brzezinski’s critique of my role in the New Modernist Studies, an alleged movement whose founding document I am said to have authored ( Poetry of the Revolution [2006]), I use this movement as a test case for the two methods under discussion (the question of how...

... at its zenith perpetually receding behind the horizon of temporally embodied life. This essay explores such interplay in Nietzsche’s later work and some of its anticipatory and retroactive resonances in John Keats’s Romantic poetics of negative capability, the modernist ecopoetics of A. R. Ammons...

... to demonstrate the ways in which individuals are variously folded into or blocked out of community-forming activities. In their insistence on such specificity, which this essay traces to a modernist notion of medium specificity, Bruguera's performances are shown to question the manner in which the field...

... of Beirut in 1982. Palestinian modernist novels emerge in this context both to mark the end of Arab and Palestinian praxis and to resist its revolutionary recoil. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Abdelrahman Munif's coauthored novel World without Maps (1982) and Jabra's The Other Rooms (1986) are discussed...

... of Higher Education 46 . 11 ( 5 Nov. 1999 ): A21 - A22 . Mao Douglas Walkowitz Rebecca L. . “The New Modernist Studies.” PMLA 123 . 3 ( May 2008 ): 737 - 748 . Puchner Martin . Poetry of the Revolution . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2006 . Walkowitz Rebecca L...

... acknowledgement of Wolfe’s influence, does argue that literary texts can offer complex ways of reviewing the privileged status of the human. She reads a set of early and high modernist texts: The Island of Dr. Moreau; Heart of Darkness; early T. S. Eliot; Women in Love, St. Mawr, and The Plumed Serpent...

... at California State University, Los Ange- les. His research interests include modern and contemporary anglo- phone fiction, queer theory, and ecocriticism. He is finishing a book titled “The Modernist Art of Queer Survival.” Anne-Lise François is associate professor of comparative literature...

... for grasping its global agency. The Novel at the World Scale . (on Palumbo-Liu David , Robbins Bruce , and Tanoukhi Nirvana ., eds., Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture [2011]; Jon Hegglund, World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction [2012...

... (2012) looks at how modernist poets and novelists reimagine creative spontaneity in the context of collective political organization. In The Matter of Capital (2011), Nealon shows how American poetry in the twentieth century, far from rejecting the discourse of economics, incorporates...

... at Northeastern University. He holds a master s degree in English from Oklahoma State University and writes on trauma, masculinity, and Modernist literature. His other work has been published in Superfoot Magazine, Lost Modernists, and elsewhere. Risë Kevalshar Collins is an emerging essayist, poet, and fiction...

... poetry that illuminates a polyphonic West as the source of language, thought, critique, and generative poetics. This transna- tional, contemporary focus, moreover, is one of the biggest factors affecting how I situate the indigenist frameworks between, for exam- ple, the Peruvian modernist...

... of address.” The idea that we can operate independently of other people, that scholars and teachers do not need to work through the issues of profession, public and vocation, is as Robbins points out, “continuous… with a long modernist tradition which conceives the intellectual...

... “problematized.” It was not always easy to publish this new work in the major journals, but it happened, and when said journals pulled up their ladders, new journals popped up, welcomingly. Books, too, were published, usually with dark blue sleeves adorned with a yellow modernist font. Long before...

...Mark B. Feldman Mark B. Feldman Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Animals in New York City On top of the cantilevered entrance to Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum of American Art, an elegant modernist box, rests an unruly eagle’s nest (Fig. 1). Made of interlocking sticks...

..., and Women’s Studies Departments at Duke University. Matthew Hooley is a PhD student in English at the University of Wisconsin. Currently he is at work on a dissertation about Native modernist writers in Minneapolis after 1887. Amitava Kumar teaches English at Vassar College...

... English and Women's Studies at DePauw University. She has published articles on modernist American poetry, theories of metaphor, the history of sexuality, Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, and Simone de Beauvoir (current project). She also writes periodically for the Women's Review of Books...

... of the present is, how it is different from its immediate past, which I call modernist. These are artistic or aesthetic terms, but as far as I am concerned they really extend all the way to politics and economics and through the life world itself. Modernism and postmodernism are not necessarily abso­...

..., or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism won the 1990 MLA Lowell Award. His recent works include Archaeologies of the Future (Verso, 2005), The Modernist Papers (Verso, 2007), Valences of the Dialectic (Verso, 2009), The Hegel Varia- tions (Verso, 2010), and Representing Capital (Verso, 2011). He...

... didn’t jibe with the more austere and cheerless aesthetic of his modernist contemporaries. His calling would be less in poetry than in bureaucracy, as he positioned himself as a visionary vanguard for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Weber borrows the concept of charisma “from the vocabulary...