Journal of Modern Literature articles from January 2012

Journal of Modern Literature archives from January 2012

Still Life: Modernism's Turn to Greece
January 1, 2012... RETURN TO THE URN Bert Underwood's stereoscopic rendition of one of Athens's most celebrated and photographed sites (Figure 1) offers a witty visual gag with literary associations: (modern-day) Greek contemplates (ancient Greek) urn; or, as...

The Lacanian Phallus and the Lesbian One in Wharton's "Xingu"
January 1, 2012... Edith Wharton's brilliant 1911 story "Xingu" anticipates Jacques Lacan's theory of the phallus as the power to signify. (1) This anticipation is somewhat parallel to the way Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (1844) served Lacan as a model for the...

Realism, Irony and Morality in Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence
January 1, 2012... In art, as in morals, what ought to be done does not depend on our personal judgment; we have to accept the imperative imposed by the time. --JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSETT, "THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ART AND NOTES ON THE NOVEL" 1. By choosing to...

On the Possibility of the Aesthetic Life: Terry Eagleton, Cather's Tom Outland, and the Experience of Loss
January 1, 2012... A perennial and compelling line of thought in Marxist criticism is that reason and capital have perverted our capacity to grasp aesthetic experience as bodily sensuousness and plenitude. Rather than attune us to beauty, capitalist rationality...

John Buchan's amicable anti-modernism.(Report)
January 1, 2012... The study of inter-war writing has in recent years produced a number of reinterpretations of previously marginalized figures. Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Warwick Deeping, Stella Gibbons, Walter Greenwood, Rosamund Lehmann, Rose Macaulay,...

The "Pound Case" in Historical Perspective: An Archival Overview
January 1, 2012... Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue --T.S. Eliot, from FOUR QUARTETS The above epitaph from the wartime poem "Little Gidding" by T.S. Eliot, a long-time collaborator and later...

Your Reputation Precedes You: A Reception Study of Naked Lunch
January 1, 2012... Reception of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch has run the gamut. It has been hailed as a work of genius, a masterpiece of experimental fiction; defamed as a piece of filth, an exercise in pornography; and regarded as a book of yawns, a...

Ernest Fenollosa: out of time, out of place.(Report)
January 1, 2012... Ernest Fenollosa's essay on "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" imagines, confects, taxonomizes and theorizes a kind of writing that would become one of the most durable obsessions of American modernism--the Chinese ideogram....

Tribute to Ellen Cronan Rose
January 1, 2012... This journal lost its executive editor, Dr. Ellen Cronan Rose, to cancer on Monday, October 10, 2011. A co-editor of JML since 2002, her achievements include professorships at Dartmouth and Haverford Colleges, MIT, University of Nevada-Las Vegas...