The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first book, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the lovely success of Langston Hughes, who used to be simply twenty-four at its first visual appeal. starting with the hole "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 reviews of African american citizens 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 was once outfitted on utilizing eu theoretical versions (from psychoanalysis to feminist thought) to Russia's modernization. This booklet argues that, on the become the 20th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time came upon itself in direct war of words 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 experiences 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 historical past, media experiences, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by way of 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 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 old shape in the course of the modernist interval. It focuses really on how they either resisted the varieties of narration confirmed by way of nineteenth-century educational historians and grew to become as an alternative to standard literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the kinds that historic illustration may take.