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Tag Archives: modernism

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  • 20
    Sep

    2022

    Are we happier now?

    The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened the window.’” It took me some time to feel the force of this remark. But after years of studying modernist literature,...

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  • 15
    Feb

    2022

    Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio and Identity

    Sometimes, during research, what appears to be a narrow, well-charted path opens out into a startling vista. In 2016, my PhD supervisor, Anna Snaith, advised me to look at the transcripts of early radio...

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  • 21
    Sep

    2021

    The Secret of Poetry

    When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation...

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  • 31
    Mar

    2021

    Hemingway the movie: behind the scenes with Sandra...

    Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY premieres on PBS on April 5, 2021. Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and produced by Sarah...

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  • 2
    Dec

    2020

    Tragedy, Art of Dissent

    Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized. Rape is your fault. Grief is your fault. Mortality is your fault. Tragedy exposes these lies. I argue in my book...

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  • 28
    May

    2020

    Southern Silence: American Literature and Viruses

    It is a mystifying fact that the 1918-19 Spanish influenza pandemic—which infected one-third of the world’s population and killed between 50-100 million—inspired almost no works of American literature....

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  • 21
    May

    2020

    Emergency Literature

    In Camus’s The Plague (1947), two Frenchmen in the Algerian town of Oran “gazed down at what was a dramatic picture of their life in those days: plague on the stage in the guise of a disarticulated...

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  • 12
    May

    2020

    London

    London, under the conditions of social isolation, has been turned inside out. Its centre is empty; its peripheries are full of people. The streets of the city’s suburbs, in the unseasonable...

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