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Modernism (Literature) -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General., LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry., LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to postmodern culture in America. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism is the first book-length scholarly study of this important literary figure. Drawing on new archival research -- including explorations of Ford's correspondence with the likes of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes and many others -- the book explores the full impact of Ford's contribution to 20th-century American literary culture."--
"Drawing on new archival material - including his correspondence with such major figures as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Djuna Barnes - this is the first book-length study of the work of Charles Henri Ford, a pivotal figure in late modernist American literary culture"--

Modernism (Literature) -- United States., American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism., American poetry., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Short stories, Canadian -- History and criticism., Short stories, American -- History and criticism., Comparative literature -- Canadian and American., Comparative literature -- American and Canadian., National characteristics, Canadian, in literature., National characteristics, American, in literature., Modernism (Literature) -- Canada., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Transnationalism in literature., LITERARY CRITICISM / General., LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General., and LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.

"This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses. The analytical chapters take various approaches to literary, non-fictional as well as visual texts as their prime objects of analysis within selected areas of Comparative North American Studies. These text - and genre-centered case studies represent an array of rewarding approaches within Comparative North American Studies: period-oriented, generic, thematic/border studies, thematic/imagological, and receptionist. The book includes comparative analyses of American and Canadian modernism and of the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, national images of the United States and Canada in literature, reviews of Margaret Atwood's novels in North America, as well as an interview with Margaret Atwood on book reviewing in North America"--
"This monograph shows Comparative North American Studies at work in selected case studies and textual analyses focusing on the American and Canadian modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, national images of the United States and Canada, and reviews of Margaret Atwood's novels in Canada and the United States. The book includes an interview with Atwood on book reviewing in North America"--

Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Ekphrasis., Art in literature., Queer theory -- United States., Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States., Modernism (Aesthetics), Modernism (Literature), and Queer theory.

This title argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing nonetheless also involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This book suggests that this particular interplay between imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis.

Modernism (Literature) -- United States., American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States., Ethnic groups in literature., Cultural pluralism in literature., Transnationalism in literature., Literature and globalization., American fiction., Modernism (Aesthetics), Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a wider, global literature. Both modernist and American literary studies have been reshaped by waves of scholarship that unsettled prior consensuses regarding America's relation to transnational, diasporic, and indigenous identities and aesthetics; the role of visual and musical arts in narrative experimentation; science and technology studies; and allegiances across racial, ethnic, gendered, and sexual social groups. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh and exciting reasons to read or reread modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique interpretations and approaches to modernist themes, techniques, and texts." -- Publisher's description

Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Visual poetry, American -- History and criticism., Language and languages in literature., Modernism (Literature), and Visual poetry, American.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry., American poetry., Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"In Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic richness. In these essays, Scroggins reviews the legacy of Louis Zukofsky, delineates the exceptional influence of the Black Mountain poets, and provides close readings of a wealth of examples of poetic works from poets who have carried the modernist legacy into contemporary poetry. He traces with an insider's keen observation the careers of many of the most dynamic, innovative, and celebrated poets of the past half-century, among them Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ronald Johnson, Rae Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, and Anne Carson. In a concluding pair of essays, Scroggins situates his own practice within the broad currents he has described. He reflects on his own aesthetics as a contemporary poet and, drawing on his extensive study and writing about Louis Zukofsky, examines the practical and theoretical challenges of literary biography. While the core of these essays is the interpretation of poetry, Scroggins also offers clear aesthetic evaluations of the successes and failures of the poetries he examines. Scroggins engages with complex and challenging works, and yet his highly accessible descriptions and criticisms avoid theoretical entanglements and specialized jargon. Intricate Thicket yields subtle and multifaceted insights to experts and newcomers alike. "--
"This project gathers essays on a wide range of key twentieth and twenty-first century poets and writers. Scroggins examines the legacy of Louis Zukofsky (the subject of his two earlier books with the University of Alabama Press), assesses the extraordinarily influential Black Mountain poets, and provides close readings of individual books and detailed career overviews of a number of the most dynamic, innovative, and celebrated poets of the past half-century, among them Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ronald Johnson, Rae Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, Anne Carson, and others. Taken together these essays make a cumulative argument for the persistent vitality of the modernist tradition in contemporary writing, and for the intellectual and aesthetic richness made available by modernist techniques of composition. These essays are rich with detail and careful close interpretation, and are written in a lively, accessible style. While Scroggins does not shy away from engaging with complex and challenging works, his writing is pitched towards an interested, educated readership, and steers clear of theoretical entanglements and specialized jargon. And while interpreting poems is at the center of these essays, Scroggins does not hesitate to make aesthetic judgments about the successes or failures of particular texts. He situates his own critical practice and his own aesthetic investments in a concluding pair of essays, one of them a consideration of the practical and theoretical challenges of literary biography (with special reference to his work on the critically acclaimed The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky) and the other a reflection on his own aesthetics as a publishing poet"--

Modernism (Literature) -- United States., American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American literature., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism., Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Modernism (Art) -- United States., Asian Americans in literature., American literature -- Asian American authors., Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Literature, Experimental., Modernism (Art), Modernism (Literature), Criticism, interpretation, etc., and History.

American poetry -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Ecology in literature., Environmental protection in literature., Literature, Experimental -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry., NATURE / Ecology., American poetry., Literature, Experimental., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

" In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," which echo as a paean to pollution: "Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall!" Schuster labels this theme "regeneration through pollution" and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered modernist American artists, writers, and musicians from embracing environmentalist agendas. Schuster provides specific case studies focusing on Marianne Moore and her connection of fables with animal rights; Gertrude Stein and concepts of nature in her avant-garde poetics; early blues music and poetry and the issue of how environmental disasters (floods, droughts, pestilence) affected black farmers and artists in the American South; and John Cage, who extends the modernist avant-garde project formally but critiques it at the same time for failing to engage with ecology. A fascinating afterword about the role of oil in modernist literary production rounds out this work. Schuster masterfully shines a light on the modernist interval between the writings of bucolic and nature-extolling Romantics and the emergence of a self-conscious green movement in the 1960s. This rewarding work shows that the reticence of modernist poets in the face of resource depletion, pollution, animal rights, and other ecological traumas is highly significant"--

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism., Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism., Literature and technology., Poetics., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Information technology in literature., American poetry., Modernism (Literature), Poetry, Modern., and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Homosexuality and literature -- United States., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American., Homosexuality and literature., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"Through close readings of a wide range of his poems, prose, letters, and manuscripts, this book shows how Hart Crane created an alternative form of literary modernism, queering modernist experience. It goes beyond representations of sexuality in the texts to show how Crane employs queerness as an intellectual strategy in order to challenge these areas of modernist concern. Whilst the study engages with debates current within modernist studies, such as geography, spatial form, the material world, and the influence of technology, it also shows how recent concepts within queer theory such as the antisocial thesis and debates over temporality can help us to read Crane's work differently. The book challenges existing versions of Crane as a 'difficult' poet, and suggests the means by which other queer modernists might be re-read in light of this discussion of Crane's work. "--

American poetry -- History and criticism., Subjectivity in literature., Materialism in literature., Poetics., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., American poetry., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.--Provided by publisher

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General., American poetry., Literature and society., Modernism (Literature), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.--bisacsh, Criticism, interpretation, etc., and History.

"The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of 'literary modernism' - which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945 - to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry's evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods"--

National geographic magazine., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Geography in literature., Geographers -- United States., American poetry., Geographers., Modernism (Literature), and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of academic and popular forms of geography in shaping the experimental poetic modernism of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and H.D.

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography., American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Biography., and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Although contemporary scholarship views D. H. Lawrence as a distinctly English author, Lee M. Jenkins argues for a reassessment of his relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, including "Studies in Classic American Literature" and "The Plumed Serpent."

Nature in literature., American literature -- Middle West -- History and criticism., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Regionalism in literature., Protestantsm in literature., Landscapes in literature., Protestantism in literature., and Criticism, interpretation, etc.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Irony in literature., Satire -- History and criticism., Politics in literature., Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General., and POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

"This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others"--

American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism., American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Failure (Psychology) in literature., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., and Criticism, interpretation, etc.