Journal of Modern Literature articles from June 2003

Journal of Modern Literature archives from June 2003

Editor's introduction "it must change".(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... The seven articles that appear in this double issue are thematically, chronologically, and critically various. Matters associated with the emergence of modernism (Tischler, Troy), with narrative modes of analyzing modern art (Siedell), with...

Under-writing: forming an American minority literature.
June 22, 2003... From the beginning of the twentieth century until World War II, first and second generation European immigrants to the United States wrote about their experiences primarily in semi-autobiographical novels rather than in other literary forms....

A rose is a pose: Steinian modernism and mass culture.
June 22, 2003... Critics and commentators have held hugely divergent views on the quality and significance of Gertrude Stein's literary works. They have agreed, however, on one point: that with the notable exception of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...

Double trouble: the Hueffer brothers and the artistic temperament (1).(Biography)
June 22, 2003... Oliver Madox Hueffer has achieved only footnote fame in literary history as the younger brother of Ford Madox Ford. Yet such near oblivion was the last fate that family friend Olive Garnett would have expected from the larger-than-life...

Art criticism as narrative strategy: Clement Greenberg's critical encounter with Franz Kline.
June 22, 2003... This book is not intended as a completely faithful record of my activity as a critic. Not only has much been altered, but much more has been left out than put in. -- Clement Greenberg, "Preface," Art and Culture, 1961 ...

A.N. Wilson and Marcel Proust: surprising bedfellows.
June 22, 2003... We will never, I fear, fully comprehend the mystery of the English hostility to the Modernist novel after the Second World War, a rejection so profound that it seems to the outsider to be positively perverse. No one of the arguments advanced...

Theology for atheists: reading Ammons.
June 22, 2003... ... take anything think about it, and it blows up in wonder. --Ammons To have come to A.R. Ammons's poetry in the mid-1970s, when the atmosphere was filled with personalities (Plath, Jong, Berryman) and relentlessly...

Postmodern ethics and the expression of differends in the novels of Jeanette Winterson (1).
June 22, 2003... In Le Differend, Lyotard defines the silencing of victims, with its consequent effacement of the violence done to them, as that which creates a wrong (tort), which he distinguishes from damage (dommage). (2) A damage occurs when one being is...

Representation, violence, and the fate of culture: an interview with Geoffrey Hartman.(Interview)(Interview)
June 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Daniel T. O'Hara Temple University When I invited Geoffrey Hartman to speak at Temple in the fall of 2002, I discovered that his talk, "Cultural Memory and the Passion Narrative, " dealt with the complex problem of...

Not Without Love: Memoirs.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Constance Webb. Not Without Love: Memoirs. Dartmouth College/University Presses of New England, 2003. xix + 253 pp. $29.95, cloth. In the course of her extremely eventful life, Constance Webb acted on the New York Stage, she posed for...

Yeats with Lacan: Towards the Real Modernism.(W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... R.F. Foster. W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939. Oxford University Press, 2003. 856 pp. $45.00. (1) The second volume of R.F. Foster's biography, W.B. Yeats: A Life: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (the first volume was the...

Why Lacan?(The Cambridge Companion to Lacan)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Jean-Michel Rabate. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxviii + 287 pp. $35.00. Jacques Lacan is the type of intellectual that people love to hate. His style, first of all, is notoriously difficult due to...

Conrad Scholarship Under New-Millennium Western Eyes.(Conrad and Masculinity)(En visioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness)(Conrad and Impressionism)(Space, Conrad, and Modernity)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Andrew Michael Roberts. Conrad and Masculinity. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000. xi + 250 pp. $55.00. Peter Edgerly Firchowd. En visioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. University Press of Kentucky, 2000....

The edges of Surrealism.(Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life)(The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader)(Surrealism and Modernism: From the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Katharine Conley, Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader (Duke University Press, 2003) Eric Zafran and...

Modernism's Ghosts.(Yeats's Vision Papers, Volume 4)(The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification)(The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Harper, George Mills and Margaret Mills Harper, Eds. Yeats's Vision Papers, Volume 4. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. 276 pp. $48.00, cloth. Hungerford, Amy. The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. University of...

Skeptical music: Essays on Modern Poetry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Bromwich, David. Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. University of Chicago Press, 2001), xiv + 256 pp. $16.00 paper. Over the last twenty-five years David Bromwich has authored several important books, including Hazlitt: The Mind of...

Shades of Beckett.(Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro (1934))(Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Friedman, Alan Warren. Ed. Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro (1934). University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xi + 207 pp. $34.95. Worth, Katharine. Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys. Oxford University...

Tom Stoppard: a Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Ira Nadel. Tom Stoppard: A Life. Palgrave, 2002. 621 + xviii pp. $29.95. English literature, like the English language, is the most inclusive of all literatures. It might not even be a major literature were it not for its Irish component...

Going the Distance.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... David R. Jarraway. Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature. Louisiana State University Press, 2003.230 pp. $24.95, paper. The title of David R. Jarraway's new monograph evokes the figure of a marathon,...

You and I: John Ashbery's Open Invitation.(Your Name Here)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... John Asbhery, Your Name Here. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 127 pp. $23.00. Ashbery's poems rest on the "Here" of the title often. Critical observations on Ashbery often reflect this moment's fusion. But they point frequently to...

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Frederick Spotts. Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. Overlook Press, 2003. 456 pp. $37.50. Frederick Spotts' surprising thesis is encapsulated in his title: "Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics," not, as we might expect of his subject,...