The Weary Blues

Approximately 90 years after its first book, this celebratory version 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 at once, in detail, and powerfully of the studies 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 used to be outfitted on making use of eu theoretical versions (from psychoanalysis to feminist concept) to Russia's modernization. This booklet argues that, on the develop into the 20th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time came across itself in direct disagreement 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 important reviews of born-digital literature rejoice 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 stories, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by means 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 concepts 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 throughout the modernist interval. It focuses fairly on how they either resisted the different types of narration proven by means of nineteenth-century educational historians and became as an alternative to standard literary devices—lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory—to reimagine the kinds that old illustration may perhaps take.