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The waste land after one hundred years
An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.T. S. Eliot first published his long poem The Waste Land in 1922. The revolutionary nature of the work was immedia...
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To float in the space between
A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award–winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
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To write as if already dead
To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sens...
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Tonal intelligence
Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of “Oriental inscrutability” across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed m...
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Turn the world upside down
Imani D. Owens recasts Black creators’ relationship to folk culture, emphasizing their formal and stylistic innovations and experiments in self-invention that reach beyond the local to the world.
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Ulysses by numbers
<i>Ulysses</i> has been read obsessively for a century. What if instead of focusing on the words to understand the structure, design, and history of Joyce’s masterpiece, we pay attention to the numbers? Taking a computational approach, <i>Ulysses by Numbers</i> lets us see...
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V. s. naipaul's journeys
Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul’s work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussio...
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Vineland reread
Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.
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Viral modernism
Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Elizabeth Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for th...
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What else but love?
Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential American novelists: William Faulkner and and Toni Morrison. Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness"...
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What the thunder said
A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpieceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. “But,” as Jed Rasula writes, “The Wast...
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Worlds woven together
The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginative readings of a variety of authors. Discussing neglected writers and those well-known in the West, these essays are unabashedly passionate and subje...
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Writing backwards
Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.
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Writing in red
Nergis Ertürk traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s.
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Writing to the rhythm of labor
Benjamin Kindler examines how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write.
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