DOCSLIB.ORG

Transatlantica, 1 | 2016, “Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New” [Online], Online Since 28 February 2016, Connection on 29 April 2021

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Transatlantica, 1 | 2016, “Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New” [Online], Online Since 28 February 2016, Connection on 29 April 2021 Transatlantica Revue d’études américaines. American Studies Journal 1 | 2016 Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7983 DOI: 10.4000/transatlantica.7983 ISSN: 1765-2766 Publisher AFEA Electronic reference Transatlantica, 1 | 2016, “Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New” [Online], Online since 28 February 2016, connection on 29 April 2021. URL: http:// journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7983; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.7983 This text was automatically generated on 29 April 2021. Transatlantica – Revue d'études américaines est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New Introduction. Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New Clément Oudart (Women Writing) The Modernist Line Cristanne Miller “Radical”: Marianne Moore and the Revision of Modernism Aurore Clavier Eliot’s Modernist Manifesto Viorica Patea Beyond the American Difficult Poem: Paul Celan’s “Du liegst” Xavier Kalck The Ongoing French Reception of the Objectivists Abigail Lang The Open Boat and the Shipwreck of the Singular: American Poetry and the Democratic Ideal Elizabeth Willis The Rhetoric of the Rearguard? Sincerity in Innovative American Poetics Nicholas Manning Spectral Telepathy: the Late Style of Susan Howe Marjorie Perloff Hors Thème Fundamental Education: UNESCO and American Post-War Modernism Matthew Chambers « Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple Sébastien Liagre Tracer l’animal dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass Claire Cazajous-Augé Actualités de la recherche Conférence d’Emory Douglas, ancien ministre de la Culture des Black Panthers, peintre et illustrateur Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, 16 octobre 2015 Alice Morin Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 2 “The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles & the United States” Université Paris-Sorbonne – November 6th-7th, 2015 Auréliane Narvaez and Sarah Leboime Journée d’étude « Le témoin et l’écriture de l’histoire » Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, vendredi 29 janvier 2016 Jessica Jacquel « Mobilisation(s) politique(s) des groupes ethno-raciaux dans l’Amérique d’Obama » Roman Vinadia Colloque « Bible et Amériques du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui : métamorphoses, diffractions et métissages de la Bible dans les Amériques » Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient, 28 avril 2016 Mariannick Guennec International Ecopoetics Conference“Dwellings of Enchantment : Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, June 22-25, 2016 Diane Deplante, Caroline Durand-Rous and Fanny Monnier Fiction Rescues History: Don DeLillo Conference in Paris Paris Diderot University and Paris Sorbonne University, February 18th – 20th, 2016 Luca Ferrando Battistà, Maud Bougerol, Aliette Ventejoux, Béatrice Pire and Sarah Boulet Les archives sonores de la poésie: production – conservation – utilisation 24-25 November 2016, Maison de la Recherche de Paris-Sorbonne Chris Mustazza Journée d’étude « D’une crise à l’autre aux États-Unis (1929-2008) – Approches historiques et sociologiques des crises et des politiques sociales aux États-Unis » Université Paris-Diderot, 21 janvier 2016 Manuel Bocquier Journée d’étude « Écritures féminines des diasporas asiatiques aux États-Unis » Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 1er avril 2016 Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni and Nelly Mok International Conference “Staging American Bodies” Staging America – Seventh Annual International Conference, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, March 17-18, 2016 Yaël Pouffary Recensions Claude Le Fustec, Northrop Frye and American Fiction Robert D. Denham Frédéric Dumas, Mark Twain : Tourisme et vanité Stéphanie Carrez Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Laure Gillot-Assayag Nathalie Dessens et Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, dirs, Interculturalité: la Louisiane au carrefour des cultures Claire Parfait Nama, Adilifu. Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino David Roche Rebecca Walsh, The Geopoetics of Modernism Beci Carver Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 3 Catherine COLLOMP, Résister au nazisme. Le Jewish Labor Committee, New York, 1934-1945 Annie Ousset-Krief Revue Imaginaires n°19 « Pop Culture ! Les Cultures populaires aujourd’hui. » Nicolas Labarre Stefani, Anne, Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970 David Diallo Anca Cristofovici & Barbara Montefalcone: Hands-on / Hands-0ff Susan Barbour Reconnaissances An Interview with Rick Bass Claire Cazajous-Augé An Interview with Hollis Seamon Bordeaux, April 2016 Pascale Antolin Trans'Arts À rebours : Retour sur l’exposition de la collection de photographies de Sam Wagstaff au Getty Center à Los Angeles (15 mars - 31 juillet 2016) The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs Isabella Seniuta Francesca Woodman, « On Being an Angel » Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, du 11 mai au 31 juillet 2016 (commissaire Anna Tellgren) Juliette Melia « As good as real » A propos de deux photographies de dioramas présentées dans l’exposition Le grand orchestre des animaux (Fondation Cartier, Paris, Juillet 2016-Janvier 2017) Camille Joseph Western stories Arles 2016-2017, Les Rencontres de la photographie Chiara Salari “For the benefit and enjoyment of the people”: from wilderness icons to National Geographic’s bear’s-eye views on the occasion of the National Park Service's 100th anniversary Chiara Salari Review of Méliès to 3D: the Cinema Machine exhibition at the Cinémathèque de Paris (October 5th-January 29th, 2017) David Lipson Passion Patchwork : l'étoffe de l'Amérique Adélaïde Desnoé “Restructuring of Forms in American Patchwork” Exhibition “Once Upon a Quilt: America as a Patchwork,” Fondation des Etats-Unis, 2-26 octobre 2016 Marva Mercedes Dixon Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 4 Revue de l’exposition The Color Line – Les artistes africains-américains et la ségrégation (1865-2016) Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, 4 octobre 2016 – 15 janvier 2017 Églantine Morvant La Peinture américaine des années 1930 Exposition du 12 octobre 2016 au 30 janvier 2017 au Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Muriel Adrien Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 5 Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 6 Introduction. Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New Clément Oudart ‘Literature is news that STAYS news’ Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934 1 By bringing together such critical touchstones as Modernism, Revolution(s), and the New, this issue seeks to draw attention to one of the foundational mirages of the modernist experience, that of a clear-cut, definitive, history-bound Modernist revolution. Rather than engage in yet another attempt to pin down an ultimate definition or to settle the debate regarding the blurry timeframe of early, high, late (let alone post-) Modernism, the purpose of this issue is to revisit the modernists’ revolutionary claims and their vicissitudes through over a century of experimental writing. From the “cradle of modernism” (Rabaté, 2007)—with the 1913 New York Armory Show and the publication, arranged from London by Ezra Pound, of H.D.’s first Imagist poems in Chicago’s Poetry magazine—to the latest writings of, say, Susan Howe, the writing of innovative verse has gone through a bewildering sequence of movements, breaks, manifestoes and revolutions. To such an extent that one may wonder if the word revolution should not be understood literally and in the plural, as pointing less to the coming of age of a Marxian upheaval than to the planetary revolutions of a global poetic trend whose inherent obliquity prevents the perpetual return of the same and the paradoxical establishment of an ongoing “tradition of the new” (Rosenberg, 1959). Such debate about drastic change is unavoidably haunted by Eugene Jolas and his “Revolution of the Word” transition issue of 1929. His much-quoted “Proclamation” fostered the literary craftsman’s use of a dismantled syntax, along with the disintegration of pre-existing words and fashioning of a new, multilingual idiom, understood as the literary means for an intercontinental revolution. Reading modernism requires tackling the double bind of innovative writing: the resurgence of revolutionary claims and the new forms of the “New” in American poetry—both in the Transatlantica, 1 | 2016 7 critical and creative arenas—from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Pound’s Renovation or Make It New’s Old News 2 A key axiom of the modernist rhetoric of rupture seems to be predicated upon a multifaceted paradox, which in itself aptly encapsulates the tensions and contradictions underlying the modernist endeavor. The famous Poundian expression, an apparent injunction, is mostly remembered as a revolutionary call-to-arms (make it new!), or as the very definition of the task of the true poet (to make it new). Although the phrase is usually associated with the inaugural modernist moment, it mostly gained circulation owing to its visibility as the largely allusive and mostly misunderstood title of Pound’s collection of essays, published in London in 1934 and in the U.S. the following year. Yet the publication date signals that it had little to do
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Constructing Transgression: Criminality in Experimental Literature
    University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Open Access Dissertations 2019 CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE Charles Kell University of Rhode Island, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss Recommended Citation Kell, Charles, "CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE" (2019). Open Access Dissertations. Paper 888. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss/888 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE BY CHARLES KELL A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2019 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION OF CHARLES KELL APPROVED: Dissertation Committee: Major Professor Peter Covino Ryan Trimm Eske Møllgaard Nasser H. Zawia DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2019 ABSTRACT This dissertation examines integral, challenging contemporary poetry and fiction, and its relationship to notions of the criminal in multiple guises. The present focus on “criminal” excavates not only its literal meaning—the nature of crime, and its specific relation to penal law—but also brings to light how the “criminal” affects the construction of fiction and poetry, and the lives of various individuals (speakers) within the chosen texts. Intricately tied with the criminal are practices that transgress, and this study will also locate specific creations where poets and novelists construct transgressions that challenge contemporary ideas of narrative and poetic modes.
    [Show full text]
  • A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879
    A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946 by Natalia Aki Cecire A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor C. D. Blanton, chair Professor Lyn Hejinian Professor Mark Goble Professor Suzanne Guerlac Fall 2010 A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946 © 2010 by Natalia Aki Cecire 1 Abstract A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946 by Natalia Aki Cecire Doctor of Philosophy in English University of California, Berkeley Professor C. D. Blanton, Chair This American literature dissertation offers an account of the critical category of “experimental literature,” arguing that, nebulous as the term appears to be, it is rooted in ideas of scientific experiment that were under debate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While experimental literature is often described in terms of “formal innovation,” this dissertation reads literary form not as an autonomous category in its own right but as an indicator of epistemological investments. Borrowing Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s concept of the “epistemic virtue,” this dissertation argues that experimental literature seeks to produce a “sense of the real,” not by thematically treating scientific ideas or even by emulating scientific methods, but rather by using literary form to negotiate the changing landscape of what constituted scientificity in the first place. Epistemic virtues are the investments, at once methodological and ethical, that define the experimental mode. Experimental authors, this dissertation argues, seek ways for literature to produce knowledge with strong epistemic guarantees.
    [Show full text]
  • IN the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the DISTRICT of COLUMBIA US DOMINION, INC., DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, INC., and DOMINION
    Case 1:21-cv-02130-CJN Document 1 Filed 08/10/21 Page 1 of 213 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) US DOMINION, INC., DOMINION ) VOTING SYSTEMS, INC., and ) DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS ) CORPORATION ) c/o Cogency Global ) 1025 Vermont Ave, NW, Ste. 1130 ) Washington, DC 20005, ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. ) HERRING NETWORKS, INC., d/b/a ) ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK ) 101 Constitution Ave., NW ) Washington, DC 20001, ) ) CHARLES HERRING ) 17353 Circa Oriente ) Rancho Santa Fe, California 92067, ) ) ROBERT HERRING, SR. ) 4289 Rancho Las Brisas Trail ) San Diego, California 92130, ) ) CHANEL RION ) 3211 Cherry Hill Lane, NW ) Washington, DC 20007, ) ) and ) ) CHRISTINA BOBB ) 565 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ) Apt. 803 ) Washington, DC 20001, ) ) Defendants. ) ) Case 1:21-cv-02130-CJN Document 1 Filed 08/10/21 Page 2 of 213 COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL April 18, 2021: “‘The majority of people [at OAN] did not believe the voter fraud claims being run on the air.’ . Mr. Golingan, the producer, said some OAN employees had hoped Dominion would sue the channel. ‘A lot of people said, “This is insane, and maybe if they sue us, we’ll stop putting stories like this out,”’ he said.” Former OAN Producer Marty Golingan, quoted in the New York times, and fired by OAN the day after the statements were published 1. On the actual facts, the November 2020 election was a huge success for Dominion. In jurisdiction after jurisdiction, in 28 states, in the midst of a highly disruptive pandemic, Dominion’s voting machines facilitated efficient and reliable voting with accurate tallying of votes.
    [Show full text]
  • FEB. 22, 2021// VOL. IV, ISSUE 4 Hmmm
    FEB. 22, 2021// VOL. IV, ISSUE 4 Hmmm... 2 A Plea from BrooklynSon_Defiant!, Son of BrooklynDad_Defiant! //MATTHEW BRIAN COHEN 4 I'm a Piece of Shit Because I Only Have Six Side Hustles //CAROLINE COTTER GUEST CONTRIBUTOR 7 Medicare & Medicaid to Be Replaced With One Bottle of Benadryl That Everyone Has to Share //JAMES DWYER 9 I Only Had Two Hours to Design Good Pillow's Logo and It Fucking Sucks :( //DIANA KOLSKY 11 New Amazon Warehouse Employee Beff Jezos Asking Lots of COVER ART BY AKMAL TAJIHAN GUEST CONTRIBUTOR , @UgkyStinkyBad Questions at Alabama Union Vote //KYLE EWERT GUEST CONTRIBUTOR 13 SERIOUS 14 Let’s Leave Behind the Morgan Wallens: Country Music Doesn’t Need Racists, So It Needs to Stop Promoting Them PIECE //BRADY O'CALLAHAN 16 Neera Tanden Got Drunk and Tweeted About The Snyder Cut //THE FUNCTIONALLY DEAD HEADS 17 Butterfly Effect: Winter Blizzard Uri Originated from a Single Drop of One Woman’s Piss //CAROLYN EGAN GUEST CONTRIBUTOR 19 The Parkland Kids Who Didn't Start A Pillow Company: Where's Their Fucking Hustle? //MATTHEW BRIAN COHEN 20 As a Serial Killer, I Must Say, You Anti-Maskers Are Sucking the Joy Out of Killing //RIEL LEWIS GUEST CONTRIBUTOR 21 March Horoscopes: Sage Career Advice from Me, Malia Obama, a Person Who Has Been Hustling for Literal Weeks //CATHRYN MUDON 23 What Do I Do Now? //DAN LOPRETO THIS IS A MAGAZINE OF PARODY, SATIRE, AND OPINION//DESIGN BY DIANA KOLSKY 1 A Plea from BrooklynSon_Defiant!, Son of BrooklynDad_Defiant! //MATTHEW BRIAN COHEN My name is BrooklynSon_Defiant! Some of you might know my father, Brook- lynDad_Defiant!, from his time as a Donald Trump reply guy on Twitter.
    [Show full text]
  • Towards a Literary and Feminist Neo-Avant-Garde: Carla Vasio’S Experimental Fiction
    Towards a Literary and Feminist Neo-Avant-Garde: Carla Vasio’s Experimental Fiction Lucia Re and Joseph Tumolo Fig. 1. Carla Vasio, in her home in Rome in June, 2019. Photo: Joseph Tumolo. Reproduced with permission of Carla Vasio. Carla Vasio (b. 1923; fig. 1) was one of two women writers present at the Gruppo 63’s first meeting in Palermo in October of 1963. The other was her friend, the poet Amelia Rosselli. Despite Vasio’s active involvement in several of the group’s meetings and activities over the years, she is rarely mentioned in critical discussions, and very little attention has been devoted to her work.1 This is not an isolated oversight, but a part of a larger pattern of marginalizing the women writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde.2 Even a cursory reading of Vasio’s works shows that this marginalization is unjustified, and that she is a writer who actively contributed to the aesthetic innovation of the Gruppo 63 while creating her own experimental literary style. As will become clear, Vasio’s experimentation is a fine example of neo-avant-garde aesthetics, distinguished by its sophisticated feminist critique of both the dominant masculinist dynamic of the Gruppo 63 and the misogyny of postwar Italian culture and society. Far from being a mere phase in her literary production, Vasio’s commitment to literary experimentation and feminism endured in different forms well beyond the 1960s.3 1 See Lucia Re, “Fanalini di coda,” in Gruppo 63. Il Romanzo sperimentale. Col senno di poi, ed. Nanni Balestrini and Andrea Cortellessa (Rome: L’orma, 2013), 319.
    [Show full text]
  • The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature
    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE Edited by joe Bray, Alison Gibbons and Brian McHale Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS List of figures ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgements xvi 1. Introduction 1 JOE BRAY, ALISON GIBBONS AND BRIAN McHALE PARTI The historical avant-gardes 19 A. Modernist-era experimentalism 2. Italian Futurism and Russian Cubo-Futurism 21 JOHN WHITE 3. The poetics of animism 36 Realism and the fantastic in expressionist literature and film RICHARD MURPHY 4. The surrealist experiments with language 48 PETER STOCKWELL 5. The literary absurd 62 JOANNA GAVINS B. Postmodernist experimentalism 6. Spontaneity and improvisation in postwar experimental poetry 75 BENJAMIN LEE 7. The nouveau roman and Tel Quel 89 DANIELLE MARX-SCOURAS 8. Lettrism and situationism 101 TYRUS MILLER CONTENTS 9. OuLiPo and proceduralism 115 JAN BAETENS 10. Metafiction 128 R. M. BERRY 11. Postmodernism and experiment 141 BRIAN McHALE C. Experiments with identity 12. Sexing the text 154 Women's avant-garde writing in the twentieth century ELLEN G. FRIEDMAN 13. Experiments in black 168 African-American avant-garde poetics ALDON LYNN NIELSEN 14. The limits of hybridity 182 Language and innovation in Anglophone postcolonial poetry PRIYAMVADA GOPAL D. The new experimentalism 15. Avant-Pop 199 LANCE OLSEN 16. Post-postmodernism 212 ROBERT L. MCLAUGHLIN 17. Globalization and transnationalism 224 LIAM CONNELL 18. Altermodernist fiction 238 ALISON GIBBONS 19. Manifestos and Ars Poetica 253 LAURA WINKIEL 20. Post-criticism 267 Conceptual takes GREGORY L. ULMER VI CONTENTS PART II Experiment now: printed matter 279 E. Experiments ivith language 21.
    [Show full text]
  • H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque
    Duquesne University Duquesne Scholarship Collection Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2008 H.P. Lovecraft nda the Modernist Grotesque Sean Elliot Martin Follow this and additional works at: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd Recommended Citation Martin, S. (2008). H.P. Lovecraft nda the Modernist Grotesque (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/881 This Immediate Access is brought to you for free and open access by Duquesne Scholarship Collection. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Duquesne Scholarship Collection. For more information, please contact [email protected]. H.P. LOVECRAFT AND THE MODERNIST GROTESQUE A Dissertation Submitted to the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Duquesne University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Sean Elliot Martin December 2008 Copyright by Sean Elliot Martin 2008 H.P. LOVECRAFT AND THE MODERNIST GROTESQUE By Sean Elliot Martin Approved November 21, 2008 ________________________________ ________________________________ Anne Brannen Laura Callanan Associate Professor of English Assistant Professor of English (Committee Chair) (Committee Member) ________________________________ ________________________________ Linda Kinnahan Professor of English (Committee Member) ________________________________ ________________________________ Albert Labriola Magali Michael Dean, McAnulty College and Graduate Chair, English Department School
    [Show full text]
  • Richard Kostelanetz
    Other Works by Richard Kostelanetz Fifty Untitled Constructivst Fictions (1991); Constructs Five (1991); Books Authored Flipping (1991); Constructs Six (1991); Two Intervals (1991); Parallel Intervals (1991) The Theatre of Mixed Means (1968); Master Minds (1969); Visual Lan­ guage (1970); In the Beginning (1971); The End of Intelligent Writing (1974); I Articulations/Short Fictions (1974); Recyclings, Volume One (1974); Openings & Closings (1975); Portraits from Memory (1975); Audiotapes Constructs (1975); Numbers: Poems & Stories (1975); Modulations/ Extrapolate/Come Here (1975); Illuminations (1977); One Night Stood Experimental Prose (1976); Openings & Closings (1976); Foreshortenings (1977); Word sand (1978); ConstructsTwo (1978); “The End” Appendix/ & Other Stories (1977); Praying to the Lord (1977, 1981); Asdescent/ “The End” Essentials (1979); Twenties in the Sixties (1979); And So Forth Anacatabasis (1978); Invocations (1981); Seductions (1981); The Gos­ (1979); More Short Fictions (1980); Metamorphosis in the Arts (1980); pels/Die Evangelien (1982); Relationships (1983); The Eight Nights of The Old Poetries and the New (19 81); Reincarnations (1981); Autobiogra­ Hanukah (1983);Two German Horspiel (1983);New York City (1984); phies (1981); Arenas/Fields/Pitches/Turfs (1982); Epiphanies (1983); ASpecial Time (1985); Le Bateau Ivre/The Drunken Boat (1986); Resume American Imaginations (1983); Recyclings (1984); Autobiographicn New (1988); Onomatopoeia (1988); Carnival of the Animals (1988); Ameri­ York Berlin (1986); The Old Fictions
    [Show full text]
  • The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction
    The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction Aaron W. Winslow Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2015 © 2015 Aaron Winslow All rights reserved ABSTRACT The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction Aaron W. Winslow While literary critics have explored the politics of labor in pre-war modernist literature, the post-45 avant-garde has continued to be framed as a depoliticized repetition of previous avant-garde styles. Examining American avant-garde literature in its relation to the political and economic shifts from the 1960s through the late 1980s, my dissertation corrects this narrative to show that labor and labor politics were central categories in post-war experimental poetry and fiction. I argue that writers as disparate as Charles Olson, William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, and Susan Howe reworked disjunctive modernist forms to cognitively map emergent economic tendencies in the US. Parataxis, collage, surrealist imagery, aleatory compositional methods, non-linear plotting, and metafictional narrative conceits all constitute the stylistic techniques of an avant-garde engaged in an extended dialogue about work and the politics of work. The canon of experimental literature functioned as a counter-discourse that contested and reshaped discourses of labor by considering it alongside categories of race, gender, and sexuality. By using labor as an entry point into the avant-garde, my dissertation reconsiders the post-war literary canon, revealing an avant-garde that includes writers working across modes and genres.
    [Show full text]
  • To Kavanaugh Or Not to Kavanaugh: That Is the Polarizing Question
    To Kavanaugh or Not to Kavanaugh: That is the Polarizing Question Kareem Darwish Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU Doha, Qatar [email protected] Abstract tice Anthony Kennedy2. His nomination was marred by con- troversy with Democrats complaining that the White House On October 6, 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Ka- withheld documents pertaining to BK’s record and later a vanaugh with the narrowest margin for a successful confir- few women including a University of California profes- mation since 1881 and where the senators voted overwhelm- sor accused him of sexual assault. The accusations of sex- ingly along party lines. In this paper, we examine whether ual misconducted led to a public congressional hearing on the political polarization in the Senate is reflected among the general public. To do so, we analyze the views of more than September 27, 2018 and a subsequent investigation by the 128 thousand Twitter users. We show that users supporting or Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The US Senate voted opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination were generally using di- to confirm BK to a seat on the Supreme Court on October vergent hashtags, retweeting different Twitter accounts, and 6 with a 50–48 vote, which mostly aligned with party loyal- sharing links from different websites. We also examine char- ties. BK was sworn in later the same day. acterestics of both groups. Data Collection We collected tweets pertaining to the nomination of BK in Introduction two different time epochs, namely September 28-30, which On October 6, 2018, the US senate confirmed Brett Ka- were the three days following the congressional hearing con- vanaugh to become a justice on the US Supreme Court cerning the sexual assault allegation against BK, and Octo- with a 50 to 48 vote that was mostly along party lines.
    [Show full text]
  • New Books Fall 2015 / Winter 2016 Wesleyan University Press
    New Books Fall 2015 / Winter 2016 Wesleyan University Press The Selected Letters of John Cage john cage edited by laura kuhn Letters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Cage’s joie de vivre resounds in these letters—fully annotated throughout— in every phase of his career, and the book includes January correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre 656 pp., 6 illus., 6B/i x 9W" Boulez, among others. The voice is one we recognize from Cloth, $40.00 • 978-0-8195-7591-3 ($47.00 CAD) his writings: singular, profound, irreverent, and funny. Not Ebook, $31.99 • 978-0-8195-7592-0 only will readers take pleasure in Cage’s correspondence letters / music with and commentary about the people and events of a momentous and transformative time in the arts, they will also share in his meditations on the very nature of art. A deep pleasure to read, this volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century. “These letters, wonderfully informal and often surprisingly frank and even severe, come as a real surprise.
    [Show full text]
  • A List of the 238 Most Respected Journalists, As Nominated by Journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work Survey
    A list of the 238 most respected journalists, as nominated by journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work survey Fran Abrams BBC Radio 4 & The Guardian Seth Abramson Freelance investigative journalist Kate Adie BBC Katya Adler BBC Europe Jonathan Ali BBC Christiane Amanpour CNN Lynn Ashwell Formerly Bolton News Mary-Ann Astle Stoke on Trent Live Michael Atherton The Times and Sky Sports Sue Austin Shropshire Star Caroline Barber CN Group Lionel Barber Financial Times Emma Barnett BBC Radio 5 Live Francis Beckett Author & journalist Vanessa Beeley Blogger Jessica Bennett New York Times Heidi Blake BuzzFeed David Blevins Sky News Ian Bolton Sky Sports News Susie Boniface Daily Mirror Samantha Booth Islington Tribune Jeremy Bowen BBC Tom Bradby ITV Peter Bradshaw The Guardian Suzanne Breen Belfast Telegraph Billy Briggs Freelance Tom Bristow Archant investigations unit Samuel Brittan Financial Times David Brown The Times Fiona Bruce BBC Michael Buchanan BBC Jason Burt Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph Carole Cadwalladr The Observer & The Guardian Andy Cairns Sky Sports News Michael Calvin Author Duncan Campbell Investigative journalist and author Severin Carrell The Guardian Reeta Chakrabarti BBC Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian Jeremy Clarkson Broadcaster, The Times & Sunday Times Matthew Clemenson Ilford Recorder and Romford Recorder Michelle Clifford Sky News Patrick Cockburn The Independent Nick Cohen Columnist Teilo Colley Press Association David Conn The Guardian Richard Conway BBC Rob Cotterill The Sentinel, Staffordshire Alex Crawford
    [Show full text]