The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first booklet, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the lovely fulfillment 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 at once, in detail, and powerfully of the studies of African americans at a time whilst 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 used to be outfitted on utilizing eu theoretical versions (from psychoanalysis to feminist concept) to Russia's modernization. This ebook argues that, on the develop into the 20 th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time discovered itself in direct disagreement with the normal excessive cultures of the higher periods and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality.

Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Whereas most crucial stories of born-digital literature rejoice it as a postmodern paintings shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, electronic Modernism offers an alternate family tree. Grounding her argument in literary background, media experiences, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by means of Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with significant electronic works like William Poundstone's undertaking 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 move of the Twenties and Thirties laid the foundation for the thoughts of digital literature.

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

Most 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 through the modernist interval. It focuses really on how they either resisted the different types of narration validated via nineteenth-century educational historians and grew to become as a substitute to conventional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the types that ancient illustration may well take.