New PDF release: Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip

This comparative research crosses a number of cultures, traditions, genres, and languages with a view to discover the actual significance of Homer within the emergence, improvement, and advertising of modernist writing. It exhibits how and why the Homeric epics served either modernist formal experimentation, together with Pound's poetics of the fragment and Joyce's sprawling epic novel, and sociopolitical opinions, together with H.

Download e-book for kindle: Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching by Carrie J. Preston

In the course of the 20th century, jap noh drama used to be an incredible inventive catalyst for American and eu writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater’s stylized choreography, poetic chant, extraordinary costumes and mask, and engagement with historical past encouraged Western artists as they reimagined new ways to culture and shape.

Download e-book for iPad: Baudelaire and Photography: Finding the Painter of Modern by Timothy Raser

Whereas Baudelaire's 'Le Peintre de l. a. vie moderne' is frequently mentioned because the first expression of our thought of modernism, his collection of Constantin men as that painter has triggered consternation from the instant of the essay's e-book in 1863. Worse nonetheless, in his 'Salon de 1859', Baudelaire had additionally selected to sentence images in phrases that echo to this present day.

Download e-book for iPad: "Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of by KimberlyMorse Jones

Mining a variety of records and newspaper repositories, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of contemporary artwork feedback presents the 1st full-length examine of a extraordinary girl and heretofore overlooked paintings critic. Pennell, a prolific 'New paintings Critic', helped formulate and improve formalist method in Britain on the finish of the 19th century, which she utilized to her normally nameless or pseudonymous experiences released in different American and British newspapers and periodicals among 1883 and 1923.