JML 48.1 (Fall 2024) on Stein and Continental Modernism, is now LIVE!

 

JML 48.1 (Fall 2024), with clusters on Gertrude Stein and Continental Modernism, is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54157

Content Includes:

Editorial News: Welcome New Co-Editor Jessica Burstein

Stein

Rei Asaba

“You Ain’t Ever Got Any Way to Remember Right”: Black Affectivity, Insistent Style, and Cross-Racial Transference in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” 

Nicole Gantz

Becoming a Minor Literature: Supposing in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons 

Kelly Krumrie

“Not Unordered”: Gertrude Stein’s Numbers

Chris Raczkowski

“The Man Being Dead”: Stein, Modernism and Detective Stories 

Continental Modernism

Thomas Waller

Confessional Desire: Censorship and Repression in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s A Confissão de Lúcio 

Fredrik Tydal

“A Man Without Scruples”: The Swedish Judgment of Jay Gatsby 

Edward Waysband

The Politics of Childhood in Vladislav Khodasevich’s “Infancy” 

James Martell 

Modernism’s Totalities: From the Marquis de Sade to Titus-Carmel 

Feng Dong 

Overcoming Gravity: Celan, Nietzsche, and Nihilism

Ken R. Hanssen

W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Problems of Representation 

Reviews

Philipp Wolf

Mimesis: A Protean Concept

Amalia Cotoi

How Philosophy Turns up Its Nose at Smell: A Review of Simon Hajdini’s What’s That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory 

BOOK NEWS: New insights into Fitzgerald's relation to silent film

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film

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.

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.

"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.