Border Modernism : Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism 9781136720574, 9780415941495

Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representati

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Border Modernism : Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism
9781136720574, 9780415941495

This unique work analyzes the crisis in modern society, building on the ideas of the Frankfurt School thinkers. Emphasiz

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This volume of critical essays provides the first major guide to ecology, environment and nature in literary modernism.

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Modernism is still widely acknowledged as perhaps the most important and influential artistic and cultural phenomenon of

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Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectua

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Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath mai

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How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how

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In the first book of its kind, architectural critic Michael Webb and Esto photographer Roger Straus III examine 35 extra

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Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Benjamin Kahan shows it to be much m

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This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises an

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Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices It sets out an

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