Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway, Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK and David Tucker, The American College of Greece, Greece
Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources
'The Cantos' and the Primal Matter of Troy Jonathan Ullyot This book looks at how Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos and, more broadly, recalibrates the reader’s sense of Pound’s deployment of classical sources in them. Pound’s unique understanding of medieval literature and The Cantos is, in fact, Pound’s own modernist vision of the Matter of Troy, a term used by medieval authors to designate the cycle of texts based on the Trojan war and its aftereffects, including the nostoi (returns) of the Greek heroes. Specifically, The Cantos presents itself as a modernist translatio of Homer’s Odyssey. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus to be reproduced where possible at half page HB 9781350260245 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350260221 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350260238 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture 1895–1925
Amanda Sigler, Baylor University, USA This book unearths the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know well, using new evidence to examine the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of periodicals. Sigler traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898), Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901), James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in The Dial (1923). Using previously unpublished material and long-buried editorial correspondence, she sheds light on the role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350235403 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350235427 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350235410 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Samuel Beckett and the Second World War Politics, Propaganda and a 'Universe Become Provisional' William Davies, University of Reading, UK This is the first in-depth historical study to reveal the full extent of the impact of the Second World War on the work of Samuel Beckett. Exploring the full range of Beckett’s writing, from his plays to his fiction and poetry, the book also draws on a substantial body of archival writing, from the German diaries describing his experiences in Nazi Germany, to details of his resistance work in occupied France, his attitudes to Irish neutrality and his return to France after the liberation. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350196575 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350106833 ePub 9781350106857 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350106840 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic World English
James Joyce and Photography
Georgina Binnie-Wright, Independent Scholar James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce’s engagement with the art of photography. Photography is evident throughout Joyce’s texts, from his narrator’s furtive photographic framing in Silhouettes (c. 1897), to the aggressively-minded snapshots captured by the ‘Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood kodak’ in Finnegans Wake. Through an exploration of Joyce’s manuscripts and photographic and newspaper archival material, as well as the full range of Joyce’s major works, this book sheds new light on his relationship with the visual medium, both in a personal capacity and as a means of professional promotion. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350136960 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350136984 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350136977 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
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The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence
Creative Flux, Genetic Dialogism, and the Dilemma of Endings Elliott Morsia, Independent Scholar, UK Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. Focusing on the most productive years of Lawrence’s writing life between 1909 and 1926 – a time that saw the writing of major novels such as Women in Love and the controversial The Plumed Serpent as well as his first major short story collection – this book is the first to apply analytical methods from the field of genetic criticism to the archives of this canonical modernist author. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350185432 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350139688 ePub 9781350139701 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350139695 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Edited by Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno’s social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno’s philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism’s evolution into the twenty-first century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno’s Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 296 pages PB 9781501370311 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342950 ePub 9781501342967 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501342974 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
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