Journal of Modern Literature articles from June 2005

Journal of Modern Literature archives from June 2005

Poetry, poetics, and social discourses.
June 22, 2005... Considerations of poetry and poetics are resurgent in contemporary literary study. This has occurred both in tandem with, and in reaction to, a cultural studies approach to writing that has, for thirty years or more, taken a strong interest...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2005... Errata: Susan Rosenbaum's article in volume 28, issue 2 of jml should have included the following note: Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Excerpts from The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright [c]...

George Oppen: the new or the Avant-Garde?
June 22, 2005... Passage between Anglo-American and European notions of the avant-garde has never been easy; indeed, with the publication in English of Peter Burger's Theory of the Avant-Garde in 1984, readers in Britain and America were suddenly invited to...

"In thicket": Charles Olson, Frances Boldereff, Robert Creeley and the crisis of masculinity at mid-century (1).
June 22, 2005... you see, you sld know what you do, delivering to me up clean out of the delicate sure fingers of yr mind, such things, & Blake, &, for as much as I can take, crist CHARLES OLSON TO FRANCES BOLDEREFF, 18 JANUARY 1950 I. In 1947,...

Confessional counterpublics in Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg.
June 22, 2005... I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but...

Vulnerable households: cold war containment and Robert Duncan's queered nation.
June 22, 2005... His early essay "The Homosexual in Society" (1944, revised 1959), the same-sex erotica of his early collection Caesar's Gate (1972, originally published 1955), and his undaunted use of homosexual themes throughout his oeuvre concretize Robert...

H.D.'s Helen in Egypt: aging and the unconscious.
June 22, 2005... Since the 1982 publication of Susan Stanford Friedman's Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D., the majority of the critical works about the life and poetry of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) have sought to tell and to re-interpret the story of how H.D....

David Antin's pragmatist technophobia.
June 22, 2005... "[T]he philosophical tradition I most admire," David Antin has recently remarked, is "the one that runs from Socrates through Kierkegaard and Dewey and Wittgenstein" (Conversation 58). These four philosophers are invoked in A Conversation...

MacDiarmid and Muir: Scottish modernism and the nation as anthropological site (1).
June 22, 2005... The cosmopolitan and international dimension of European modernism was often paradoxically bound to an acute concern with local and national cultures. Marinetti's projected renovation of Italian culture, Yeats's politically engaged drama and...

The use of memory: Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot, and the unpublished epigraph to North.
June 22, 2005... Over a decade before he would confront the purgatorial shade of James Joyce and other revenants of his cultural and literary inheritance in the magisterial lyric sequence "Station Island" (1985), Seamus Heaney began to free himself from the...

Review of T. S. Eliot: the contemporary reviews.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews. Ed. Jewel Spears Brooker. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. xliv, 600 p. $110. Contemporary reviews of a writer's work are often of interest only as evidence of shifts in reputation or as raw...