This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W.
This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist co
The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studi
Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the e