The Editors
Contributions
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.
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
Dutch Neorealism and Cinema Magic: The Case for a Filmic Modernism
Stephanie Lebas Huber
Looking In: Teresa Deevy, Deafness, and Radio
Emily Bloom
Modernist Epithalamia: Revival, Revision, and Subversion of Sappho in H.D.’s “Hymen”
Amanda Kubic
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
Hart Crane: The “Architectural Art”
Jo Gill
Developing a Lyric Carapace: Urban Mood, Rebellious Banality, and George Oppen’s Obscured Modernism
David Hobbs
Freedom on Trial: Kafka’s Modernist Tragedy
Jensen Suther
Almost Winning: Speculation, Temporality, and Casino Capitalism in Chekhov
Alisa Zhulina
Homme-Insecte: Form, Typus, Fetish
Fabienne Collignon
Sylvia Plath's Aerial Poetics
Jeremy Lowenthal
Don't Ask, Won't Tell? Sexual Science and the Case Biography of Sodomy in Colonial India
Robel Sequeira
The Adventure of Technology: Kipling, the Motorcar, and National Regeneration
Eva Chen
REVIEW ESSAY
The Color of Modernism
Gabriel Hankins
GALLERY REVIEW
“Consider a shoulder”: Leaning on Collaboration in Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time
Jennifer J. Smith
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert A. Davidson
The Hotel: Occupied Space
Randi Saloman
Eurie Dahn
Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures
Brooks E. Hefner
Mary Jean Corbett
Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts
Sarah Parker
Alexandra Kieffer
Debussy’s Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism
Cristina L. Ruotolo
Chris Forster
Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity
Allison Pease
Douglas Mao
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice
Greg Forter
Jaipreet Virdi
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Kim Adams