Transatlantic Modernism And The Us Lecture Tour
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Transatlantic Modernism And The Us Lecture Tour
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Author : Robert Volpicelli
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Transatlantic Modernism And The Us Lecture Tour written by Robert Volpicelli and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Literary Collections categories.
Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person--through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of modernism away from the magazines and other mass media that have so far characterized its circulation and toward the unique form of cultural distribution that coalesced around the tour. Offering many new and compelling archival insights, this volume works across an admirably broad cultural landscape to reveal the US lecture tour as a primary mover of modernism. The study highlights the role this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors--Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden--on their whistle-stop tours across America, illuminating in the process how this extremely physical form of circulation transformed authors into object-like commodities to be sold in a variety of performance venues. Moreover, it shows how these writers responded to such wide-ranging distribution by stretching their own ideas about modernist authorship. In doing so, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour adds to a critical tradition of exposing those popular dimensions of modernism that far exceeded its standard coterie definition while also uncovering something else: how the circuit's particular diversity of social contexts forced modernists to take on a new authorial flexibility that would allow them to make in-roads with practically any audience--elite, popular, and everything in between.
On The Circuit
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Author : Robert Volpicelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
On The Circuit written by Robert Volpicelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
In his 1963 ballad, "On the Circuit," W.H. Auden describes how the U.S. lecture tour transforms the modern poet into an "air-borne instrument" to be "jet-or-prop-propelled" around the country. Although Auden mostly uses his poem to grumble and complain about such an experience, this dissertation takes seriously the idea that the circuit operated as a means of high-speed literary propulsion. In the pages that follow, I offer an account of the U.S. lecture circuit as an underappreciated vehicle for transatlantic exchange that had the particular consequence of bringing international modernist writers into contact with a variety of American popular cultures and regional audiences. Tracing the routes these authors frequently traveled on their tours across the U.S. social landscape, I show how the practices of lecturing and traveling on the tour served a vital role in shaping the production and reception of transatlantic modernist literature. From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, the lecture tour imported a series of modern authors from overseas, including Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats from Ireland, Rabindranath Tagore from Bengal, Gertrude Stein from France, and W.H. Auden from England. While such a line-up immediately suggests how this circuit fits in with the transnational currents that have become so important to modernist studies in recent years, the lecture tour generally remains a topic that has garnered little scholarly attention. Some critics have gestured at lecturing as a conduit for fame. But the heavily mediated experience of celebrity only speaks to one aspect of the tour, which generated its own distinctive form of literary circulation capable of shuttling authors everywhere from large metropolitan areas and prestigious universities to small country fairs and Western frontier settlements. To provide a better sense of what this process meant to both its authors and audiences, I assemble a wide-ranging archive of materials that allows me to analyze the history of the lecture circuit along with its aesthetic implications. Each chapter here focuses on the lecture tours of one or more of the writers listed above. The first two chapters--covering Wilde, Yeats, and Tagore--center on the experience of the lecture tour itself and the way in which it prompted modernist writers to develop self-reflexive forms of authorship that facilitated their appeals to a variety of American audiences in a culture industry based on both education and entertainment. The next two chapters--on Stein and Auden respectively--shift from issues of circulation to aesthetics in order to take a closer look at how lecturing came to bear upon modernist writing. In all of these chapters, I am invested in revealing the circuit as a transformative process, one that not only reshaped poets into projectiles but also rerouted their careers by infusing their literary practices with newfound concern for such issues as public pedagogy, oral recitation and delivery, and audience.
Transatlantic Modernism And The Us Lecture Tour
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Author : Robert Volpicelli
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-24
Transatlantic Modernism And The Us Lecture Tour written by Robert Volpicelli and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person—through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of modernism away from the magazines and other mass media that have so far characterized its circulation and toward the unique form of cultural distribution that coalesced around the tour. Offering many new and compelling archival insights, this volume works across an admirably broad cultural landscape to reveal the US lecture tour as a primary mover of modernism. The study highlights the role this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors—Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden—on their whistle-stop tours across America, illuminating in the process how this extremely physical form of circulation transformed authors into object-like commodities to be sold in a variety of performance venues. Moreover, it shows how these writers responded to such wide-ranging distribution by stretching their own ideas about modernist authorship. In doing so, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour adds to a critical tradition of exposing those popular dimensions of modernism that far exceeded its standard coterie definition while also uncovering something else: how the circuit's particular diversity of social contexts forced modernists to take on a new authorial flexibility that would allow them to make in-roads with practically any audience—elite, popular, and everything in between.
Silent Film And The Formations Of U S Literary Culture
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Author : Sarah Gleeson-White
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Silent Film And The Formations Of U S Literary Culture written by Sarah Gleeson-White and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Art categories.
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion discovers the considerable impact of motion pictures on literary culture across the early decades of the twentieth century by exploring how motion pictures spurred change in twentieth century literature.
Cybernetic Aesthetics
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Author : Heather A. Love
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Cybernetic Aesthetics written by Heather A. Love and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II.
Transatlantic Modernism
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Author : Martin Klepper
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2001
Transatlantic Modernism written by Martin Klepper and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Modernism in Europe and modernism in the United States - at first glance these two concepts seem to be quite different if not opposing. European modernism, it appears, is innovative and even iconoclastic (Joyce, Schonberg, Gropius, Schwitters). American modernism, it would seem, is rather reconciliatory and even conservative (Fitzgerald, Gershwin, Wright and Hopper). The collection of essays in Transatlantic Modernism disproves this point. Transatlantic Modernism tackles the modes of transfer, translation, cross-fertilization and reinterpretation which actually characterize the complex relations between European and American cultures within the period of modernism. The essays collected in this volume cover a broad array of forms of cultural expression: literature (Doblin, Dos Passos, Faulkner etc.), philosophy (Bergson, James, Dewey), painting (Gleizes, Stella, Shahn), photography (Ray, Steichen, Sheeler), fashion (Poiret, Delaunay, Schiaparelli), film (Fox, Stroheim, Lubitsch), architecture (Bauhaus, Johnson, Hitchcock) and opera (Thomson, Stein).
Transatlantic Avant Gardes
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Author : Eric B White
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Transatlantic Avant Gardes written by Eric B White and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
A revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism, concentrating on expressions of cultural localism in the modernist transatlantic.
The Jungian Strand In Transatlantic Modernism
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Author : Jay Sherry
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-27
The Jungian Strand In Transatlantic Modernism written by Jay Sherry and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-27 with History categories.
In studies of psychology’s role in modernism, Carl Jung is usually relegated to a cameo appearance, if he appears at all. This book rethinks his place in modernist culture during its formative years, mapping Jung’s influence on a surprisingly vast transatlantic network of artists, writers, and thinkers. Jay Sherry sheds light on how this network grew and how Jung applied his unique view of the image-making capacity of the psyche to interpret such modernist icons as James Joyce and Pablo Picasso. His ambition to bridge the divide between the natural and human sciences resulted in a body of work that attracted a cohort of feminists and progressives involved in modern art, early childhood education, dance, and theater.
American Writers Classics
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Author : Jay Parini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
American Writers Classics written by Jay Parini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with American literature categories.
These volumes presents biographical essays of the authors and long critical essays of their famous literary works.
Eugenics In The Garden
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Author : Fabiola López-Durán
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Eugenics In The Garden written by Fabiola López-Durán and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Architecture categories.
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and forth between France, Brazil, and Argentina, Fabiola López-Durán uncovers the complicity of physicians and architects on both sides of the Atlantic, who participated in a global strategy of social engineering, legitimized by the authority of science. In doing so, she reveals the ideological trajectory of one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier, who deployed architecture in what he saw as the perfecting and whitening of man. The first in-depth interrogation of eugenics’ influence on the construction of the modern built environment, Eugenics in the Garden convincingly demonstrates that race was the main tool in the geopolitics of space, and that racism was, and remains, an ideology of progress.