E-book Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock : A Practicological Modernism

I would like to preface this study with an example taken from what couldperhaps be termed the “Great Global Vortex” of the twenty-first century: theinternet. On YouTube, we can find two short clips, each starring an imposingand controversial figure in the history of British art and literature. The firstis a less than minute long newsreel clip from 1938 in which British modernistpainter, wri…

E-book The Production of Lateness : Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Na…

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E-book Writing Alberta : Building on a Literary Identity

In 2005, art critic Mary-Beth Laviolette published An Alberta Art Chroni-cle covering the post-1970 art history of Alberta. Its length of five hundred pages suggested that there was something to say about the province’s art scene. To talk about an Alberta art identity within the context of Canadian art does not seem strange or unusual. So, too, it should not seem strange to talk about an …

E-book Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics

‘Mighty are numbers; joined with art, resistless.’1 The quotation from Euripides’ play Hecuba joins the two elements at the heart of this book, and it expresses the pleasure resulting from the combination of mathematics and literature – domains that are often regarded as alien or opposed to each other. The context of the quotation reveals, however, that it does not refer to th…

E-book Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny

One such concern is the lack of clear differentiation between the Russian imperial and national identities, a phenomenon that is typical of contiguous empires in general, but that seems to be particularly prominent in the Rus­sian case.36 Some scholars suggest that for various reasons—mainly related to its status as a land empire—Russia failed to create a nation altogether, and its inte…

E-book Poetry, History, Memory : Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

Perhaps in anticipation of posthumous damnation, Wang Jingwei on his deathbed asked his family and followers not to publish his speeches or essays. A collection of his classical-style verses alone, he declared, would serve as his testament.4 An editorial committee duly compiled and published his poems as Poetry on the Double-Shining Tower in May 1945,5three months before…

E-book The Autofictional : Approaches, Affordances, Forms

he apparent simplicity of the etymology of “autofiction”—designating texts that have something to do with the self and with fiction—is belied by the proliferation of meanings and practices with which it is associated. Critical writing on autofiction will usually mention one or more of the fol-lowing characteristics, all of which can characterize autofictional texts, b…

E-book Working-Class Literature(s) : Historical and International Perspectives

The idea for this collection was born out of a chance encounter over coffee in a U.S. Starbucks. Over a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed the state of working-class literature as a field, the de-cline of Marxism in academia, our favorite working-class authors, and the lack of good coffe shops on U.S. campuses. We both gen-erally laid out the various trajectories of scholarly rec…

E-book Interwar Itineraries : Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Wr…

Stationed in Alsace in 1939 and 1940, during the so-called phony war [drôle de guerre] that preceded Nazi Germany’s invasion of France, Sartre con-templates the structure of adventurous and gritty travel, pitting it against the seemingly mundane practice of tourism, but ultimately locating an in-delible link between the two. As he describes it, even his attempts to break through th…