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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.
Cory Austin Knudson discusses how Georges Bataille’s notion of “animality” can help us understand Robin Vote in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, in this post for the Indiana University Press blog: https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-beast-turning-human-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-4/
His essay is available FREE for a limited time, linked in the post.
Patricia Morgne Cramer explains how Woolf indicts British public-school culture for harming gifted men through her depiction of Bernard, Louis, and Neville in The Waves. Read it HERE.
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JML 46.4 (Summer 2023), "Evocations of Intimacy," is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51258
Content includes:
Anca Parvulescu
The Biography of a Face: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Patty Argyrides
Hauntingly Beautiful: Embodied Reading, Virginia Woolf, and Woolf Works
Patricia Morgne Cramer
“Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion”: The Waves as a Modernist Symposium
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Cory Austin Knudson
Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille
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Farah Ali
The Invisible Flesh: Mimesis in Jean Genet’s The Maids
Molly B. Lewis
The Life-Giving Efficacy of Beauty and Desire in Stoppard’s Drama
Sina Movaghati
A Beast to Be Slain: The Tiger and the Unquenched Desire of Man
Yi-chin Shih
Senses of Place: The Black Community in Alice Childress’s Wedding Band
Hsiao-wen Chen
Black Cosmofeminism: Commodity, Sexuality, and the Transnational Mixed-Race Subject in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Celiese Lypka
“I Look Straight into His Eyes … For the Last Time”: Intimacy and Indifference in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight
Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
Imagining Justice for Sentient Lives
Caroline Hovanec
The Modernist Dog
BY MARTINA MASTRANDREA
Brill, 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51037-1
https://brill.com/display/title/58680
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film recalibrates the celebrated author’s early career and brings fresh understanding to the life of one of America’s truly great literary figures. Scholars have previously focused on Fitzgerald’s connection with Hollywood when he worked in Tinseltown as a screenwriter in the 1930s. However, this ground-breaking research reveals the key role that Silent Hollywood played in establishing Fitzgerald’s burgeoning reputation in the early to mid-1920s. Vividly written and drawing on a wealth of new sources, this book documents Martina Mastandrea’s exciting discovery of the first film ever adapted from a work by Fitzgerald.
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"Mastandrea’s methodology aligns with current scholarship, which looks at Fitzgerald’s work through interdisciplinary perspectives. She ambitiously and ably interweaves textual, visual, multimodal, and multilingual materials, many of which have been previously overlooked [...]. In her investigation, Mastandrea conveys the excitement that can accompany the detective work in the researcher’s process [...]. Gender roles and how the adaptations adjusted them due to conventions, censorship, and intended audiences are recurring subjects in Mastandrea’s study [...]. Her interpretations of the sheer number and variety of sources explored are convincing and, more importantly, create a more nuanced picture of Fitzgerald’s relationship to film and of the way his stories and characters took shape in this medium. Mastandrea’s restoration of the silent cinema adaptations provides scholars with new material to explore her discussion of their impact on the presentation and reception of a newly established author should encourage a reevaluation of these films and of this early period in Fitzgerald’s life and work." – Lara Rodríguez Sieweke, Umeå University
Martina Mastandrea, PhD, SAS, University of London, is an independent scholar and English teacher in Venice, Italy. She has published articles and reviews on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Louisa May Alcott. She is the winner of the 2020 Blake Emerging Scholar Award and the joint award winner of the 2021 EAAS Rob Kroes Award.
