{"title":"The Legibility of the Modern Literary Soundscape","authors":"R. Ryder","doi":"10.1353/mod.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"29 1","pages":"437 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43823289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
all the workings of modern industry. These are not at all vast basins, slow deposits, long planetary foldings, big constructions, interminable slopes displayed by the great continents. It’s the work of a short and violent god, a place amidst the storm of stones and ash furiously brought forth by Izanagi in his search for Izanami. that a grand Pittsburgh or of construction
{"title":"“An Eternal Dance”: Paul Claudel, Japan, and Thermodynamics","authors":"R. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/mod.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"all the workings of modern industry. These are not at all vast basins, slow deposits, long planetary foldings, big constructions, interminable slopes displayed by the great continents. It’s the work of a short and violent god, a place amidst the storm of stones and ash furiously brought forth by Izanagi in his search for Izanami. that a grand Pittsburgh or of construction","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"29 1","pages":"265 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47563902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange by Rebecca Colesworthy (review)","authors":"Anthony Domestico","doi":"10.1353/mod.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"29 1","pages":"450 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46000449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
the people on a broad basis: the number of people living in absolute poverty was substantially reduced from over 250 million to about 50 million, a decline from a one-third to a twenty-fifth of its population; and life expectancy increased from 64 in the 1970s to over 70 in the late 1990s. 35
{"title":"Shi Zhi and Chinese Literary Modernism in the Late Twentieth Century: Modernity, Consumerist Economics, and Chinese Modernist Poetry","authors":"Tiao-Hsin Wang, R. Schleifer","doi":"10.1353/mod.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"the people on a broad basis: the number of people living in absolute poverty was substantially reduced from over 250 million to about 50 million, a decline from a one-third to a twenty-fifth of its population; and life expectancy increased from 64 in the 1970s to over 70 in the late 1990s. 35","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"29 1","pages":"377 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47881038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The New Wallace Stevens Studies seeks to extend the continuing importance of Stevens criticism into the present century by present-ing “confluences of what used to be there, what happens to be here, and what is in the process of becoming” (1). The book opens up new possibilities of reading Stevens in the light of contemporary theoretical movements in the humanities, neurosciences, and environmental studies, while preserving the impression of the poet as responding to the intellectual and cultural currents of Anglo-American modernism in the locality of his sensibilities as a poet-businessman based his entire life in Hartford, Connecticut. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays presents curated critical perspectives of Stevens which consciously foreground emerging scholarly voices that engage with what the editors Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han term “new fields, cutting-edge theories, and untried methodologies” (3) in seeking innovative approaches through which to explicate Stevens’s often repetitious claims about imaginative vitality and its relationship to reality. Subtitled “Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism,” part I of the essay collection presents updated perspectives on the politics found in Stevens, a poet who has been criticized for his inability to imagine a politics of the “real” despite his advocacy of the existential importance of the poetic imagination. Lisa Siraganian’s chapter, “Imperialism and Colonialism,” locates sites of poetic complexity in the verse that speak to the complicated conditions underlying the poet’s comfortable surveyal of political movements from a distance. Siraganian posits an overarch-ing dialectic at work in Stevens’s appropriation of world-events into the ambit of poetic consciousness, claiming that “Stevens was invested in the problem of imperialism—to the extent that he was—because im-perialism entailed a belief system that
{"title":"The New Wallace Stevens Studies ed. by Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han (review)","authors":"Ian Y. H. Tan","doi":"10.1353/mod.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The New Wallace Stevens Studies seeks to extend the continuing importance of Stevens criticism into the present century by present-ing “confluences of what used to be there, what happens to be here, and what is in the process of becoming” (1). The book opens up new possibilities of reading Stevens in the light of contemporary theoretical movements in the humanities, neurosciences, and environmental studies, while preserving the impression of the poet as responding to the intellectual and cultural currents of Anglo-American modernism in the locality of his sensibilities as a poet-businessman based his entire life in Hartford, Connecticut. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays presents curated critical perspectives of Stevens which consciously foreground emerging scholarly voices that engage with what the editors Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han term “new fields, cutting-edge theories, and untried methodologies” (3) in seeking innovative approaches through which to explicate Stevens’s often repetitious claims about imaginative vitality and its relationship to reality. Subtitled “Emerging Concepts in Stevens Criticism,” part I of the essay collection presents updated perspectives on the politics found in Stevens, a poet who has been criticized for his inability to imagine a politics of the “real” despite his advocacy of the existential importance of the poetic imagination. Lisa Siraganian’s chapter, “Imperialism and Colonialism,” locates sites of poetic complexity in the verse that speak to the complicated conditions underlying the poet’s comfortable surveyal of political movements from a distance. Siraganian posits an overarch-ing dialectic at work in Stevens’s appropriation of world-events into the ambit of poetic consciousness, claiming that “Stevens was invested in the problem of imperialism—to the extent that he was—because im-perialism entailed a belief system that","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"29 1","pages":"441 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43435458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
806 of topics such as famine in British India. Anand’s novel Big Heart is shown to be an adaptation of Ernst Toller’s German Expressionist play, Die Maschinenstürmer [The Machine-Wreckers], with multiple scenes and characters in Big Heart referencing the earlier play. In tracing the ways Toller’s works also draw from a wide variety of sources, Morse argues that “Anand’s and Toller’s catholic and widespread borrowings suggest a vast international network of appropriation and cooperation” (147). This analysis of Anand as “an imaginative arranger” provides a fresh perspective on Anand’s literary production and relationship with radio in this period (118). Radio Empire demonstrates the BBC’s Eastern Service’s importance within radio and literary history while bringing welcome attention to little known texts and rethinking existing critical understandings. Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies.
{"title":"Beckett, Lacan, and the Mathematical Writing of the Real by Arka Chattopadhyay (review)","authors":"Fernanda Negrete","doi":"10.1353/mod.2021.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2021.0065","url":null,"abstract":"806 of topics such as famine in British India. Anand’s novel Big Heart is shown to be an adaptation of Ernst Toller’s German Expressionist play, Die Maschinenstürmer [The Machine-Wreckers], with multiple scenes and characters in Big Heart referencing the earlier play. In tracing the ways Toller’s works also draw from a wide variety of sources, Morse argues that “Anand’s and Toller’s catholic and widespread borrowings suggest a vast international network of appropriation and cooperation” (147). This analysis of Anand as “an imaginative arranger” provides a fresh perspective on Anand’s literary production and relationship with radio in this period (118). Radio Empire demonstrates the BBC’s Eastern Service’s importance within radio and literary history while bringing welcome attention to little known texts and rethinking existing critical understandings. Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies.","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"28 1","pages":"806 - 808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
808 This vestige is crucial to the inscription of the Real as a precise literal mark of the limit of the thinkable, where bits of language are suffused with the specific enjoyment that causes a subject. Lacan proposes the term lalangue for these bits of language as leftovers of enjoyment, and Chattopadhyay discerns this dimension in what he calls Beckett’s “phonological and morphological fluidity” (147), of which he offers many thoughtful examples that in some instances resonate with Lacan’s own play with signifiers through homophony and neologism. In its final chapter, the book examines sexuality, love, and non-relation, since they are importantly tied to the question of Real writing in Lacan, and, Chattopadhyay shows, also in Beckett texts such as “Enough” and Malone Dies. Certainly, sexuation for Lacan is not concerned with biological sexes, and it is based on what Chattopadhyay calls “a non-relational principle” that he also discloses in the Beckettian “pseudo-couple” (161). Yet the presence of a female character, regardless of her biological sex, in the striking passages from these two texts is not an indifferent matter. If feminine and masculine positions concern two modes of enjoyment, non-relation, and effects of the signifiers “man” and “woman” in carving out an erotic body, there is nonetheless something about the specific way in which the phallic signifier fails for the feminine subject. The analysis of “Enough” points in this direction, highlighting the female character’s act of narrating her memories of her love story as somehow evoking her jouissance. Yet it quickly turns to other perspectives, guided by the question of writing, which leads back into the enigma of feminine jouissance with the character Moll. Perhaps this limited engagement with feminine jouissance has to do with Beckett’s own texts. But perhaps the impossibility of ending that Beckett stages again and again pertains to a non-phallic excess. Could it be that Beckett grapples with constructing the sinthome in the feminine, precisely? In a quintessentially Beckettian gesture, the book closes by opening an endless question, that of feminine sexuality, where Chattopadhyay does not enter, perhaps because he is aware that the feminine side of sexuation involves an interminable residue and that, as Beckett shows, ending at last is a feat (195).
{"title":"British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime: For the Duration by Beryl Pong (review)","authors":"E. Ridge","doi":"10.1353/mod.2021.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2021.0066","url":null,"abstract":"808 This vestige is crucial to the inscription of the Real as a precise literal mark of the limit of the thinkable, where bits of language are suffused with the specific enjoyment that causes a subject. Lacan proposes the term lalangue for these bits of language as leftovers of enjoyment, and Chattopadhyay discerns this dimension in what he calls Beckett’s “phonological and morphological fluidity” (147), of which he offers many thoughtful examples that in some instances resonate with Lacan’s own play with signifiers through homophony and neologism. In its final chapter, the book examines sexuality, love, and non-relation, since they are importantly tied to the question of Real writing in Lacan, and, Chattopadhyay shows, also in Beckett texts such as “Enough” and Malone Dies. Certainly, sexuation for Lacan is not concerned with biological sexes, and it is based on what Chattopadhyay calls “a non-relational principle” that he also discloses in the Beckettian “pseudo-couple” (161). Yet the presence of a female character, regardless of her biological sex, in the striking passages from these two texts is not an indifferent matter. If feminine and masculine positions concern two modes of enjoyment, non-relation, and effects of the signifiers “man” and “woman” in carving out an erotic body, there is nonetheless something about the specific way in which the phallic signifier fails for the feminine subject. The analysis of “Enough” points in this direction, highlighting the female character’s act of narrating her memories of her love story as somehow evoking her jouissance. Yet it quickly turns to other perspectives, guided by the question of writing, which leads back into the enigma of feminine jouissance with the character Moll. Perhaps this limited engagement with feminine jouissance has to do with Beckett’s own texts. But perhaps the impossibility of ending that Beckett stages again and again pertains to a non-phallic excess. Could it be that Beckett grapples with constructing the sinthome in the feminine, precisely? In a quintessentially Beckettian gesture, the book closes by opening an endless question, that of feminine sexuality, where Chattopadhyay does not enter, perhaps because he is aware that the feminine side of sexuation involves an interminable residue and that, as Beckett shows, ending at last is a feat (195).","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"28 1","pages":"808 - 810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48775496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic provides unsettling context for reading Peter Fifield’s Modernism and Physical Illness and Michael Davidson’s Invalid Modernism. Fifield’s study asks us to think about how it feels to be sick, what it means to observe sickness in others, and how illness shifts relations of care. Davidson’s book shows us how disability and chronic illness make us vulnerable not only to the conditions themselves but to dismissal and disavowal and to biopolitical control. Both books focus on literary dealings with bodies, but such dealings of course reflect eugenically-inflected conceptualizations of health and wellness, disability and bodily norms, fragmentation and wholeness, that circulated in the modernist period and linger in our own. These conceptualizations and norms are explored in depth by Davidson as he considers the ways modernist literature and aesthetics are entangled with bodies in general and disability in particular. This effort leads Davidson to engage not only with disability studies but also with the aesthetic turn in recent literary studies, with affect theory, queer theory, and postcolonial and critical race studies. His book is incredibly wide ranging, treating literature from a long modernist period that encompasses Oscar Wilde and Henry James, avant-garde movements such as futurism and Dada, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, and Samuel Beckett, and contemporary global experimental literature and video by writers and thinkers such as Indra Sinha, M. NourbeSe Philip, Rachel Zolf, and Mel Baggs. Davidson also explores visual art and opera, theories of degeneration, and histories of eugenics. And he modernism / modernity
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{"title":"Queering Modernism's Masculine Arena: In the Boxing Ring with Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore","authors":"A. Hancock","doi":"10.1353/mod.2021.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2021.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18699,"journal":{"name":"Modernism/modernity","volume":"28 1","pages":"735 - 759"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44763259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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