Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom

Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom

Author: Allison Pease

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1139537083

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Bored women populate many of the most celebrated works of British modernist literature. Whether in popular offerings such as Robert Hitchens's The Garden of Allah, the esteemed middlebrow novels of May Sinclair or H. G. Wells, or now-canonized works such as Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, women's boredom frequently serves as narrative impetus, antagonist and climax. In this book, Allison Pease explains how the changing meaning of boredom reshapes our understanding of modernist narrative techniques, feminism's struggle to define women as individuals and male modernists' preoccupation with female sexuality. To this end, Pease characterizes boredom as an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives, arguing that such critique surfaces in modernist fiction in an undeniably gendered way. Engaging with a wide variety of well- and lesser-known modernist writers, Pease's study will appeal especially to researchers and graduates in modernist studies and British literature.


Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom

Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom

Author: Allison Pease

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1107027578

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Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.


Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Author: Celia Marshik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 135002046X

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Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The volume explores four key aspects of modernist literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist studies: women's contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; and the intersection of gender and sexuality with politics and law. Including brief case studies of such writers as May Sinclair and Radclyffe Hall, this book is a valuable guide for those looking to understand the history of critical thought on gender and sexuality in modernist studies today.


Counterfeit Culture

Counterfeit Culture

Author: Rob Turner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1108428487

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Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.


The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

Author: John D. Morgenstern

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1942954557

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The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual features the year’s best scholarship on this major literary figure.


The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell

The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell

Author: Tahneer Oksman

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2018-12-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1496820584

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Winner of the 2020 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O’Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James Yeh In a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet’s and Gabrielle Bell’s comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume, editors Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O’Malley regard Doucet’s and Bell’s art as actively feminist, not only because they offer women’s perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of such engagements. While each artist has a unique perspective, style, and worldview, the essays in this book investigate their shared investments in formal innovation and experimentation, and in playing with questions of the autobiographical, the fantastic, and the spaces in between. Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist, known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Meanwhile, Bell is a British American cartoonist best known for her intensely introspective semiautobiographical comics and graphic memoirs, such as the Lucky series and Cecil and Jordan in New York. By pairing Doucet alongside Bell, the book recognizes the significance of female networks, and the social and cultural connections, associations, and conditions that shape every work of art. In addition to original essays, this volume republishes interviews with the artists. By reading Doucet’s and Bell’s comics together in this volume housed in a series devoted to single-creator studies, the book shows how, despite the importance of finding “a place inside yourself” to create, this space seems always for better or worse a shared space culled from and subject to surrounding lives, experiences, and subjectivities.


Methodologies of Affective Experimentation

Methodologies of Affective Experimentation

Author: Britta Timm Knudsen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-27

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3030962725

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We live in an era of experimentation – both if we look at the broader social world of politics, media and art and at the narrower context of academic knowledge production. This collection consists of 14 chapters by leading scholars in affect studies. They explore the affective dimensions of experimental practices related to, for example, activism, the COVID-19 pandemic, populism, sustainability, patient communities, music streaming, Jamaican dancehall, gangs, leadership, tourism and minority youth cultures. Experiments are understood as intentionally crafted milieus aimed at (re)presenting unnoticed aspects of the world, as non-linear processes with unpredictable outcomes, and as ways of giving the future a provisional form. The collection responds to a pressing need to understand the intersection between affect, experimentation and sociocultural change by offering empirical strategies to explore how, and with what consequences, experimentation is affective.


Dependent, Distracted, Bored

Dependent, Distracted, Bored

Author: Susanna Paasonen

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0262363372

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A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction. In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with detrimental effect on our capacities to focus, relate, remember, and be. Paasonen argues instead that network connectivity is a matter of infrastructure and necessary for the operations of the everyday. Dependencies on it do not equal addiction but speak to the networks within which our agency can take shape.


Modernism: Evolution of an Idea

Modernism: Evolution of an Idea

Author: Sean Latham

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1472529154

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What exactly is “modernism”? And how and why has its definition changed over time? Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term “modernism” from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist studies. Rather than assuming and recounting the contributions of modernism's chief literary and artistic figures, this book focuses on critical formulations and reception through topics such as: - The evolution of “modernism” from a pejorative term in intellectual arguments, through its condemnation by Pope Pius X in 1907, and on to its subsequent centrality to definitions of new art by T. S. Eliot, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, F. R. Leavis, Edmund Wilson, and Clement Greenberg - New Criticism and its legacies in the formation of the modernist canon in anthologies, classrooms, and literary histories - The shifting conceptions of modernism during the rise of gender and race studies, French theory, Marxist criticism, postmodernism, and more - The New Modernist Studies and its contemporary engagements with the politics, institutions, and many cultures of modernism internationally With a glossary of key terms and movements and a capacious critical bibliography, this is an essential survey for students and scholars working in modernist studies at all levels.