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Category: Modernism

Cultural History

What We Were Left: Re-tracing the Political Aftermath of the First World War for Britain and Ireland

posted by Ruth Campbell January 28, 201910 min read122 Views

Mark Quigley,University of Oregon With commemorations of the 1918 Armistice this past November, four years of centennial reckonings with the…

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Cultural Studies

Canadian Modernism at the Present Time

posted by Ruth Campbell December 4, 20186 min read300 Views

Here, Brian Trehearne expands on his inspirations, and the wider context behind his article in Modernist Cultures (November 2018). My…

Language and Literature

Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity

posted by Carla Hepburn September 10, 20185 min read445 Views

By Chris Coffman The Parisian salon hosted by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was unique among queer modernist spaces….

Language and Literature

10 Things to Count on when Working on Literature and Mathematics

posted by Carla Hepburn July 17, 20189 min read505 Views

By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of…

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Cultural Studies

Finn Fordham on the Anatomy of Moments

posted by Ruth Campbell May 30, 20186 min read712 Views

Singing in a choir recently I was lucky enough to experience some intense moments, and less lucky in my attempts…

History

Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction

posted by Carla Hepburn January 25, 201810 min read1056 Views

By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…

Language and Literature

Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos”, Pedagogy and Poetics

posted by Ruth Campbell January 16, 20185 min read1042 Views

‘The Cantos and Pedagogy Forum’ in Volume 12 Issue 3 of Modernist Cultures consists of a research-length article by my colleague,…

Language and Literature

The Rosetta Stone

posted by Carla Hepburn December 12, 20175 min read1111 Views

By Jesse Schotter For the hordes of selfie-snapping tourists at the British Museum, one objects attracts more attention than any other:…

Language and Literature

Proletarian Modernism

posted by Carla Hepburn September 7, 20175 min read2967 Views

By Nick Hubble Modernism raises questions. On one level, it expresses the personal questions about subjectivity that writers such as…

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Language and Literature

Top 10 Modernist Manifestos from Britain and Ireland

posted by Ruth Campbell July 24, 20175 min read2184 Views

During the early 20th century avant-garde countries like France, Italy, Russia, and Germany provided fertile ground for manifesto writing: Dada,…

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