Journal of Modern Literature articles from January 2010

Journal of Modern Literature archives from January 2010

Nazim Hikmet and Ezra Pound: "To Confess Wrong Without Losing Rightness".(Report)
January 1, 2010... POETRY AND THE STATE This is Ezra Pound in Washington, D.C., in 1945: "If I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good" (qtd. in...

The mother tongues of modernity: modernism, transnationalism, translation.(Report)
January 1, 2010... THE ACCENTS OF THE FUTURE Over the last two decades, the increasing critical emphasis placed on the transnational constitution of the cultures of modernism has once again highlighted the central role of two fundamental motives: migration and...

Call It Sleep and the limits of typicality.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Henry Roth's novel Call It Sleep (1934) oscillates between the particular and the general. It is focalized almost completely through its protagonist, the young boy David Schearl, who grows from six to eight years old over the course of the...

Subway ride and subway system in Hart Crane's "The Tunnel".(Report)
January 1, 2010... "AND WHY DO I OFTEN MEET YOUR VISAGE HERE?" When Hart Crane began writing "The Tunnel" segment of The Bridge in 1926, the subway was already a typical subject for American poets of the city. Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" was 13...

Parading the undead: camp, horror and reincarnation in the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Yau.(Report)
January 1, 2010... In a gesture that is itself quite campy--like the ubiquitous "in" and "out" lists of current fads, voguish restaurants or fashionable clothing styles in trendy magazines--Susan Sontag whimsically classifies in her essay "Notes on 'Camp'" what...

Imagining Henry: Henry James as a fictional character in Colm Toibin's The Master and David Lodge's Author, Author.(Report)
January 1, 2010... She had had a great shock; it was as if the gulf of the past had suddenly opened, and a spectral figure had risen out of it. --Henry James, Washington Square He has always been a writer's writer because of his technical skill and...

Mirrored disjunctions: on a Deleuzo-Joycean theory of the image.(Report)
January 1, 2010... Joyce's discourse on the nature of images has undergone numerous transformations throughout his fiction: from the scholastic model illustrated in Stephen Hero, through the dogmatic idealism examined in the "Proteus" chapter of Ulysses, and the...

A spectrum of modernist outsiders.('Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New' & 'The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century')(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Rod Rosenquist. Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. vii, 210 pp. $90.00 cloth. Madelyn Detloff. The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge...

Language lessons: Pound's letters to his Chinese friends.('Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends')(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Zhaoming Qian, ed. Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. xxvi, 242 pp. $37.95 cloth. Zhaoming Qian's newest contribution to the field of Pound studies, Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends, is a dynamic collection of letters...

Empson "in the round".('Some Versions of Empson')(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Bevis, Matthew. Some Versions of Empson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. xiii, 341 pp. $120.00 cloth. This collection of essays, edited by Matthew Bevis, reconsiders the life's work of British literary critic William Empson (1906-1984) in the wake...

Lingering over On Waiting.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Schweizer, Harold. On Waiting. New York: Routlege, 2008. x, 152 pp. $100.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. Part of Routledge's remarkable "Thinking in Action" series, Harold Schweizer's new volume, On Waiting, is a finely crafted, finely considered...