Clusters
What does it mean to for a work to be “set” in this place or at that time? This cluster—the first investigation of its kind—explores setting as a primary shaping force of modernist form.
Mar 5, 2018
Scale and Form; or, What was Global Modernism?
Transnational , geopolitical , cosmopolitan , planetary : the language of the global turn in modernist studies is now instantly recognizable to the field’s professional and aspiring practitioners. This new lexicon percolates across journals, conferences, monographs, and other sites of consecrated disciplinary activity, and represents what Aarthi Vadde, in...
Jan 2, 2018
Blogs
Samuel R. Delany’s Atlantis: Model 1924 and the Origins of Blackness
The epigraph implies origin. As a literary device it often announces source material for a text, and it is a place where, presumably, the reading experience begins. The epigraphs I have placed above are modeled after the form that Samuel R. Delany uses for his 1995 novella “Atlantis: Model 1924,” which has two literary excerpts at the beginning of each chapter. [1] Four of the five chapters of...
Jul 4, 2018
In Search of Lost Time: Precarious Research in the UK
On a recent episode of the Modernist Podcast , I asked “What does precarity mean to you?” My inquiry came in the wake of the strike action that swept the UK in the early months of 2018, as academics became embroiled in an all too familiar fight to protect their working conditions by halting alterations that would see sweeping changes to pensions . I have returned to this question many times...
Jun 18, 2018
Discussions
A venue for brief articles that intervene in debates in modernist studies.
Nov 22, 2017