The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first ebook, this celebratory variation of The Weary Blues reminds us of the beautiful fulfillment of Langston Hughes, who was once 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 reports 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 equipped on utilizing eu theoretical types (from psychoanalysis to feminist concept) to Russia's modernization. This publication 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 normal excessive cultures of the higher sessions and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality.

Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Whereas most crucial reviews of born-digital literature have fun it as a postmodern artwork shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, electronic Modernism offers an alternate family tree. Grounding her argument in literary background, media reviews, 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 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 Nineteen Thirties laid the foundation for the techniques 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 historic shape in the course of the modernist interval. It focuses fairly on how they either resisted the varieties of narration tested by way of nineteenth-century educational historians and became as a substitute to standard literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the kinds that ancient illustration may perhaps take.