The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Abundance and Loss in Cheever and Porter: Part II
“I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.”
Ayman Hareez Muhammad Adib on the modern subject’s self-theft
Abundance and Loss in Cheever and Porter: Part I
On his journey home, Merrill adapts to the conventions of the upper-class in hopes of carving his own place within it.
Ayman Hareez Muhammad Adib on an eight-mile journey through backyard swimming pools
“My Fingers are like Cauliflowers:” the Material Productions of the Hogarth Press
On Virginia Woolf’s thirty-third birthday, she and Leonard Woolf made three significant decisions over tea: they would purchase a house in Richmond, acquire a bulldog named John, and buy a printing press.
Reanna Brooks on The Hogarth Press
A “Mei Lan Fang aestheticism:” Marianne Moore and the Famous Chinese Dan Performer
Like many of her contemporaries, Marianne Moore became fascinated by all things Chinese as a young adult and sought to incorporate Chinese imagery, ideals, and philosophy into her own work.
Xiamara Hohman on Mei Lanfang’s effect on Marianne Moore
“But all the fun’s in how you say a thing”: Robert Frost’s Risky Readings
[Frost’s] theories of “sentence sounds” and “sound-posture” insisted that tone and spoken vocal inflection–how words sound when we say them–should be the material of poetry, a poetic paradigm which was perfectly suited to performance.
Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings
Reading Voices: What Can We Learn from Modernist Poetry Recordings?
There have been drastic changes in how poetry sounds to readers over the last hundred and fifty years, troubling the illusion that reading silently can offer us access to the poem as it sounded to the writer.
Isabelle Stuart on the history of modern poetry recordings
Wilfrid Ward and the Modernist Crisis in England
At the heart of the modernist controversies was the question of how human subjects are able to experience the transcendent God.
Elizabeth Huddleston on the perplexity of modernism
Setting Sail for Truth
What ‘The Steerage’ pictures are the complexities that the myth of American immigration ignores. The truth is, it has never been a one-way trip to the promised land.
Arthur Aghajanian reflects on an Alfred Stieglitz photograph
Delta Winter: Faulkner’s Nature and Repudiation
The Faulknerian gaze, turning as much to Greece and Jerusalem as to the big woods of the Mississippi Delta, calls in the grandest distillation of the modern tongue for the restoration of our memory.
Daniel Fitzpatrick on reading Faulkner's “The Bear”
Modernism: Formed or Fleeting?
For T.S. Eliot, Modernist literature was novel in form, not concept.
Nayeli Riano considers the possibility of a modern society with a living tradition.