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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain
Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an increasingly urgent subject of interrogation. Practitioners across the arts and sciences sought to listen in to, represent, and regulate the causes and effects of excess or disruptive sound. Noise was one of the pre-eminent frameworks for conceptualizing modernity and its effects. Writing Noise in Interwar Britain explores this multi-disciplinary preoccupation and argues for its connection to the sonic legacy of the First World War. The...
Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century
[headline]Provides a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century prison writing from around the world Tracking the evolutionary arc of prison writing across the twentieth century in an international and comparative framework, this study proposes an integrated account of the major shifts and movements in this relatively neglected genre of autobiography. Dwelling on works - memoirs, novellas, poems - by actual detainees, Julian Murphet offers a close stylistic analysis of twelve important texts to show how prison writing moved away from the confessional and self-scrutinising modes of an earlier tradition, to espouse openly political sentiments and solidarities. Looking at works by Oscar Wilde, R...
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness
This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period's experimental fiction.
Moonlighting
How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose resemble Beethoven's compositions. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers—chief among them E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf—profited from the representational conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture. The emphasis of Moonli...
Some of These Days
With portraits of actors, dancers, architects, poets, directors, and musicians, Some of These Days highlights how the so-called New Negro Movement of the 1920s reverberated far beyond Harlem to cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna to ignite the global renaissance of modernist culture.
Faulkner's Media Romance
A major new reading of Faulkner's work that scans the major novels for signs of the new media ecology of the 1920s and 30s.
Faulkner's Media Romance
A major new reading of Faulkner's work that scans the major novels for signs of the new media ecology of the 1920s and 30s.
Sounding Modernism
This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Script, groove, electrical current, magnetic imprint, phonographic vibration: as the contributors show, sound traverses these and other material platforms to become an insistent ground-note of modern aesthetics, one not yet adequately integrated into critical accounts of the period. This collection also provides a commanding and wide-ranging investigation of the conditions under which modernists tapped technically into the rhythms, echoes and sonic architectures of their worlds.
The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal
The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal is an eclectic collection of essays from emerging academics who engage with the notion of â oerefusalâ both as the embodiment of a resistance to conventional boundaries between academic disciplines, and as a concept with an underlying negative or reactive force that can be widely interpreted and applied. The applications of â oerefusalâ outlined in this volumeâ "ranging from activism and the politics of cultural production through to problems of identity and knowledge classificationâ "raise questions about often-elided relationships of agency and complicity in routine experience. The sense of â oerefusalâ that emerges from this book is perhaps m...
