During the early 20th century avant-garde countries like France, Italy, Russia, and Germany provided fertile ground for manifesto writing: Dada,…
Category: Modernism
By Emily Ridge He who travels light is in a fair way to travel happily. But the happy state is…
Welcome to July! This month we are doubly celebrating as, not only does OLR keep embracing the ripe age of…
My research treats music as a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the First World War was a crucial event…
Oxford Literary Review (OLR) founded in 1977 by Ian McLeod, Ann Wordsworth and Robert J. C. Young, is now celebrating its…
By Enda Duffy Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara Fredric Jameson may be the world’s most distinguished literary and cultural…
By Kate McLoughlin This article arose from a paper I gave at the conference on the Long Modernist Novel at…
“What’s wrong with that bed, Joe?” — Samuel Beckett, Eh Joe (1965) There is something conspicuously odd about many of…
An Italian Renaissance polymath, most known for his notebooks and paintings, Leonardo Da Vinci is still widely considered an enigma….