The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first book, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the beautiful 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 without delay, in detail, and powerfully of the stories 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 was once outfitted on making use of ecu theoretical types (from psychoanalysis to feminist thought) to Russia's modernization. This booklet argues that, on the become the 20 th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time chanced on itself in direct war of words with the conventional excessive cultures of the higher periods and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality.

Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Whereas most important reports of born-digital literature have a good time it as a postmodern artwork shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, electronic Modernism presents an alternate family tree. Grounding her argument in literary heritage, media experiences, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works through 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 circulate of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties laid the foundation for the ideas 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 ascertain the connection among literary and old shape in the course of the modernist interval. It focuses fairly on how they either resisted the types of narration proven by way of nineteenth-century educational historians and became as a substitute to standard literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the types that old illustration may well take.