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 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 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 equipped on using eu theoretical versions (from psychoanalysis to feminist concept) to Russia's modernization. This ebook 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 sessions and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality.

Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Whereas most important experiences 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 offers an alternate family tree. Grounding her argument in literary heritage, 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 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 circulate of the Twenties and Nineteen 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 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 proven through nineteenth-century educational historians and grew to become as a substitute to conventional literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the varieties that old illustration may take.