The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first ebook, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the beautiful success of Langston Hughes, who used to be simply twenty-four at its first visual appeal. starting with the outlet "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black because the evening is black, / Black just like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke without delay, in detail, and powerfully of the stories of African americans at a time while their voices have been newly being heard in our literature.

Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature (Russian History and Culture)

A lot of the former scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism within the Silver Age was once outfitted on utilising ecu theoretical versions (from psychoanalysis to feminist concept) to Russia's modernization. This e-book argues that, on the develop into the 20th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time came upon itself in direct war of words with the conventional excessive cultures of the higher sessions and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality.

Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Whereas most important reviews of born-digital literature rejoice it as a postmodern paintings shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, electronic Modernism presents an alternate family tree. Grounding her argument in literary background, media experiences, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works via Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with significant electronic works like William Poundstone's venture for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to illustrate how the modernist stream of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties laid the foundation for the recommendations of digital literature.

Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason

Very unlikely Modernism reads the writings of German thinker and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) to envision the connection among literary and ancient shape in the course of the modernist interval. It focuses rather on how they either resisted the different types of narration verified through nineteenth-century educational historians and became as a substitute to conventional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the kinds that ancient illustration could take.