Modern Literature

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Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

By Christina Pugh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By Jeremy Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary

By Bonnie McDougall
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The complete text of a key work of Mao Zedong, with an examination of its literary, rather than political or historical, implications

Spectral Characters

Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

By Sarah Balkin
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, Modern Literature

Reimagines modern drama by shining light on the ghostly presences within it

Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

By Molly Wallace
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays give context to environmental risk

Reading for the Planet

Toward a Geomethodology

By Christian Moraru
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Studies

A critical methodology for dealing with planetarism’s aesthetic and philosophical projections

Tactics of the Human

Experimental Technics in American Fiction

By Laura Shackelford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Literature, Digital Projects, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human

Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys

Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry

By John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A new reading of 20th-century poets and their subject matter sheds new light on the development of American literary modernism

Cosmodernism

American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary

By Christian Moraru
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature

A study of the emerging cultural model of "cosmodernism"

Still on Call

By Richard Stern
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Modern Literature
Series: Writers on Writing

A prolific, popular writer takes on everything from the 1940s to E. L. Doctorow to blogging

Untimely Interventions

AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature

Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial

Butterfly, the Bride

Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family

By Carol Weisbrod
Subjects: Law, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Uses fiction to enrich our understanding of the law that deals with marriage and the family

The Hopwood Lectures

Edited by Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others

Cultures of Modernism

Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler

By Cristanne Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Examines the influences of location on the literary achievements of three modernist women writers

Architexts of Memory

Literature, Science, and Autobiography

By Evelyne Ender
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science, Modern Literature, Psychology

Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance

Joyce/Foucault

Sexual Confessions

By Wolfgang Streit
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw materials for Ulysses and other works

Textual Awareness

A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann

By Dirk Van Hulle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Modern Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Compares the writing processes behind three central works of the modernist canon, revealing fascinating connections between literary and textual criticism

Ezra Pound and China

Edited by Zhaoming Qian
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Literature, Asian Studies

Explores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture

Poetry in the Museums of Modernism

Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein

By Catherine E. Paul
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

How modernist writers experienced the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History-and how these museums influenced their writing

Dumb Luck

A Novel by Vu Trong Phung

Edited by Peter Zinoman
Translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Modern Literature

This once banned book is the first colonial-era Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in the West

Virtual Lotus

Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia

Edited by Teri Shaffer Yamada
Subjects: Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Modern Literature, Fiction

This winning collection of short stories poignantly illustrates contemporary life in Southeast Asia

Lives in Two Languages

An Exploration of Identity and Culture

By Linda Watkins-Goffman
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL), Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Sociology
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