The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first book, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the lovely fulfillment of Langston Hughes, who was once 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 at once, in detail, and powerfully of the reports of African american citizens 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 using ecu theoretical types (from psychoanalysis to feminist idea) to Russia's modernization. This booklet argues that, on the develop into the 20 th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time stumbled on itself in direct disagreement 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 experiences 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 historical past, media stories, 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 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 stream of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties laid the basis 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 check the connection among literary and ancient shape through the modernist interval. It focuses really on how they either resisted the sorts of narration demonstrated via nineteenth-century educational historians and became as a substitute to conventional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the types that ancient illustration may perhaps take.