JML author Laurel Harris discusses the "impasse genre" and her research on the lively objects and objectified lives in Jean Rhys's fiction, in a post for Indiana University Press, available HERE.
Harris's essay is now a read for FREE feature:
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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.
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JML 44.3 (Spring 2021) is LIVE!
JML 44.3 (Spring 2021) is now available. Find it on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.issue-3 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45120
From modernist impasses to our post-literary moment
Mi Jeong Lee
The Ugly Politics of (Im)passivity, or Why Conrad’s Anarchists are Fat
Laurel Harris
Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse
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Elysia Balavage
Illumination, Transformation, and Nihilism: T. S. Eliot’s Empty Spaces
Alexandra Edwards
Orlando: A Fanfiction; or, Virginia Woolf in the Archive of Our Own
Louis Armand
“He Proves by Algebra”: James Joyce’s Post-Literary Incest Machines
Infinities of the post-
Arleen Ionescu
Blanchot in Infinite Conversation(s) with Beckett
Jeffrey Peer
Hot Spinsters: Revisiting Barbara Pym’s Virtuous Style
Farah Ali
Freedom as a Mirage: Sexual Commodification in Harold Pinter’s Films
Renée Tursi
Searching Pragmatism in Marilynne Robinson
Marija Grech
Re-Visions of the End: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Post-Literary
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Reviews
Jonathan Culler
Intertexts of Intertextuality
Robert Savino Oventile
Transports, Earthbound
Omri Moses
Technological Paranoia: A Review of Andrew Gaedtke’s Modernism and the Machinery of Madness
James Martell
Logic of Missed Encounters: A Review of Arka Chattopadhyay’s Beckett, Lacan, and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
Ruben Borg
Beckett’s Insistent Bodies
Susan Mooney
The Insider’s View of Beckett’s Re-Generating Art
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Book News: Donald Hall in Conversation
Conversations with Donald Hall
EDITED BY JOHN MARTIN-JOY, ALLAN COOPER, RICHARD ROHFRITCH
University Press of Mississippi, 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 9781496822468
Paperback ISBN: 9781496822475
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conversations-with-Donald-Hall
Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928–2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the sculptor Henry Moore; he talks about his excitement on his return to New Hampshire and the joys of his marriage with Jane Kenyon; and he candidly discusses his loss and grief when Kenyon died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven.
The thirteen interviews range from a detailed exploration of the composition of “Ox Cart Man” to the poems that make up Without, an almost unbearable poetry of grief that was written following Jane Kenyon’s death. The book also follows Hall into old age, when he turned to essay writing and the reflections on aging that make up Essays after Eighty. This moving and insightful collection of interviews is crucial for anyone interested in poetry and the creative process, the techniques and achievements of modern American poetry, and the elusive psychology of creativity and loss.
BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do NOT constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.
JOHN MARTIN-JOY is a psychiatrist and former book editor. He is author of Diagnosing from a Distance and several scholarly articles on literature and on psychiatry. ALLAN COOPER has been a full-time poet, translator, publisher, and editor for over forty years. RICHARD ROHFRITCH was educated at Wesleyan University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is compiling and editing a new bibliography of Donald Hall, based in part on interviews with Hall at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Book News: The Irish Celt figure in modern literature
Against the Despotism of Fact: Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt
BY T.J. BOYNTON
SUNY Press, 2021
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-8181-4
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1-4384-8180-7
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-7009-against-the-despotism-of-fact.aspx
Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism.
BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do NOT constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.
Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.
“Against the Despotism of Fact is an exciting contribution to Irish literary studies, to the study of modernist literature and culture, to the study of postcolonial, materialist, and globalist theory, and it is also a major intervention in the study of a range of important writers, from J. M. Synge to Samuel Beckett. This is an exciting work, building on existing scholarship and research, that will be widely discussed, and cited for years to come.”
— Enda Duffy, author of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
T. J. Boynton is assistant professor of English at Wichita State University.
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