Browsing by Subject "modernism"
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Beautiful Infidels: Romance, Internationalism, and Mistranslation
(2010)This dissertation explores the particular significance of South Asia to international literary and political spheres, beginning with the formative moments of modernist internationalism. At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, ... -
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Modernism: State, Self and Style in Four Authors
(2011)This study examines Irish modernist literature in order to complicate established critical modes which read modernist movements as reflective of distinctly vernacular or cosmopolitan aesthetic and political commitments. ... -
Creative Impulse in the Modern Age: The Embodiment of Anxiety in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1910-1917)
(2017-05-04)Through focused analysis of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry (1910-1917), this work investigates whether, and if so, how anxiety may be worthwhile or particularly constructive for poetic production in the modern world. In order ... -
Machine Poetics: Pound, Stein and the Modernist Imagination
(2011)This dissertation intervenes in the fields of modernist criticism and new media studies to examine an under-appreciated reciprocity between them. I argue that this reciprocity has not yet been adequately incorporated into ... -
Modernism after Nietzsche: Art, Ethics, and the Forms of the Everyday
(2012)This dissertation uses Nietzsche's writings on truth and metaphor as a lens through which to reconsider the contribution that modernist art sought to make to both the understanding and, ultimately, the reconstruction of ... -
Modernist Form: On the Problem of Fragmentation
(2018)This dissertation explores formal fragmentation in the modernist novel. It shows that such fragmentation not only represents the historical conditions of modernism, but also posits the potential for new forms of human relation. ... -
The Modernist Bildungsroman: End of Forms Most Beautiful
(2013)This dissertation explores the modernist novel's response to the Bildungsroman. Through extensive close readings of the three modern versions of the genre -- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, The Magic Mountain by ...
