The Editors
Contributions
Writing for Goony Friends: Jane Bowles, Weak Theory, and Coterie Aesthetics in Midcentury American Literary Culture
Nicholas Beck
The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety
Barry Sheils
Looking beyond the Mutoscope Cinematicity in “Nausicaa”
Keith Williams
The Unpastoral: Walter Ruttman and the Politics of Symphonic Form
Sarah Pourciau
Fetishizing Blackness in the Harlem Renaissance
Patrick Kindig
The first issue of volume thirty one of Modernism/modernity is here and the range and depth of the essays in the new issue is noteworthy.
This year, the MSA Executive Committee will appoint a new co-editor of the Association’s official journal, Modernism/modernity. This co-editor will be appointed to a four-year term (July 1, 2025–July 1, 2029) and will serve as one of the journal’s editors, replacing Stephen Ross in that position. Please note: the Executive Committee will accept applications from editorial teams (of up to two editors) as well as from individuals.
In the coming weeks, we will be delighted to promote Modernism/modernity 30.4—which arrived in mailboxes a little while ago—on Print Plus.
“Move Forward and Ascend!”: Temporality and the Politics of Form in Turkish Modernist Literature
Kaitlin Staudt
Furnishing Italian Colonialism: “Nomad” Interiors and the Habitations of the Empire
Ignacio G. Galán
The Archipelagic Imaginary in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death
Chih-Chien Hsieh
“verse-play” or “spoken ballet”? W. H. Auden, Rupert Doone, and a New Poetic Drama
Gabriela Minden
“Wire with something in it from men to men”: Robert Frost, the Rural Telephone Network, and the Poetics of Eavesdropping
Steven Nathaniel
Happy new year from the Rutgers Desk of Modernism/modernity! As the new co-editor of Modernism/modernity, it is a privilege to introduce the 30.3 September issue, despite a delay of a few months.
Kafkaesque Cinema in the Context of Post-fascism
Angelos Koutsourakis
“To Measure is All We Know”: William Carlos Williams and the Science of Measurement
Christian R. Gelder
“A New Appropriate Poetry”: Gender and the Language Track in Muriel Rukeyser’s A Place to Live
Kate Partridge
The M/m editorial team is delighted to announce, after significant delay, the publication of issue 30.2!
Utopian Spontaneity: Adorno’s Concept of Mimesis and Surrealist Automatic Writing
Justin Neville Kaushall
Queer Desire and the Anthropological Imagination: Randolph Stow and Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands
Ellen Smith
Abroad Among Our Kind: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Spanish Civil War Love Poems
Mercedes Aguirre
Illustrating Eliot: Edward McKnight Kauffer and the Ariel Poems
Jack Quin
Willa and Edwin Muir’s Alternative Kafka: Translation, Imitation, and the Fable
Gregory Ariail
Cinema as Method: Re-vision in Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s Film Script Cifras (1930)
Anna Torres-Cacoullos
River and Mountain, Land and Sea: The Political Topography of Finnegans Wake
Caleb Fridell
“True Lovers of their Land”: Reading, Writing, and Making it New in British Conscientious Objector Narratives of the First World War
Ingrid Hanson
The last issue of volume twenty-nine of Modernism/modernity is ready and wending its way to your inboxes as I write. As always, we are sharing with you on this site, a teaser article—Jon Najarian’s fascinating and richly illustrated consideration of Rockwell Kent’s art and illustrations—and a review as well, Pardis Dabashi’s assessment of Sarah Keller’s Anxious Cinephila.
1450–1950: The Gutenberg Galaxy According to Bob Brown
Ross Hair
Out of This Nettle: T. S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding III” and the Environment of What Grows
LeeAnn Derdeyn
The Pure and the Dirty: Censorship, Obscenity, and the Modern Bookshop
Andrew Thacker
“Rolls Rough”: William Carlos Williams on the Thrills and Ills of Automobility
Joel Duncan
“Tempus Tacendi”: The Late Silence of Ezra Pound
Sean Mark
The Language of Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Egyptology, and Literary Culture
Eleanor Dobson
“The Beautiful Future”: Harold Monro, F. T. Marinetti, and Early Modernist Poetry in England
Robyn Jakeman
Edward Krasiński’s “Overhead Sculptures”: A Manifestation of Modernity
Elżbieta Błotnicka-Mazur
Happy New Year! COVID time being what it is, we get to celebrate the beginning of a new school year (the September 2022 issue, 29.3) and the beginning of a new calendar year (2023) simultaneously. We editors are crawling ourselves out of our pandemic delays, determined to gradually bring the issue date and the calendar back into sync.
Greetings! This editor’s note marks the publication of a new print issue of Modernism/modernity and thus a new cycle here on Print+. Issue 29.2 is—or soon will be—in your mailboxes and it’s another exciting collection of the best of modernist studies today.
Global Autofictional Flânerie
Shaj Mathew
Eccentric Primitivism: The World of Jan “Eskimo” Welzl
Václav Lucien Paris
“An Eternal Dance”: Paul Claudel, Japan, and Thermodynamics
Ryan Johnson
Unpacking the MoMA Myth: Modernism under Revision
Sandra Zalman
Dancing Returns: Recovering Modernism’s Movements
Michelle Clayton