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The Unexamined Orwell
By John Rodden
University of Texas Press
Continuing his masterful investigation of the ongoing reception and continual reinvention of George Orwell six decades after his death, Rodden delves into numerous aspects of Orwell’s legacy that have been surprisingly neglected.
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
University of Texas Press
Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.
Joyce's Web
The Social Unraveling of Modernism
University of Texas Press
In this revolutionary work, Margot Norris proposes that Joyce’s art critiques modernism’s fundamental concept of the artist as martyr to bourgeois sensibilities by revealing an awareness of the artist’s connections to and constraints within bourgeois soci
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars
By Faye Hammill
University of Texas Press
A fascinating look at seven American, Canadian, and English women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved popular success in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work is s
Every Intellectual's Big Brother
George Orwell's Literary Siblings
By John Rodden
University of Texas Press
John Rodden uses the concept of reception history to shed new light on the way the memory of George Orwell has shaped and been shaped by the intellectuals of the last fifty years.
The Geometry of Modernism
The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
University of Texas Press
A fresh, engaging study of one of modernism's most pivotal movements.
News from the New American Diaspora
and Other Tales of Exile
University of Texas Press
Short stories that depict the range of Jewish life in twentieth-century America.
The Early Poetry of Robert Graves
The Goddess Beckons
University of Texas Press
In this study of Graves’s early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality: reason and predictability.
William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Edited by Seth L. Wolitz
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.
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