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Ghostwriting Modernism

Ghostwriting Modernism

Author: Helen Sword

Publisher: Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9781501717666

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 232

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Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete with ghosts and spirits. In Ghostwriting Modernism she explores spiritualism's striking persistence and what she calls "the vexed relationship between mediumistic discourse and modernist literary aesthetics." Sword begins with a brief historical review of popular spiritualism's roots in nineteenth-century literary culture. In subsequent chapters, she discusses the forms of mediumship most closely allied with writing, the forms of writing most closely allied with mediumship, and the thematic and aesthetic alliances between popular spiritualism and modernist literature. Finally, she accounts for the recent proliferation of a spiritualist-influenced vocabulary (ghostliness, hauntings, the uncanny) in the works of historians, sociologists, philosophers, and especially literary critics and theorists. Documenting the hitherto unexplored relationship between spiritualism and modern authors (some credulous, some skeptical), Sword offers compelling readings of works by James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, H.D., James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes. Even as modernists mock spiritualism's ludicrous lingo and deride its metaphysical excesses, she finds, they are intrigued and attracted by its ontological shiftiness, its blurring of the traditional divide between high culture and low culture, and its self-serving tendency to favor form over content (medium, so to speak, over message). Like modernism itself, Sword asserts, spiritualism embraces rather than eschews paradox, providing an ideological space where conservative beliefs can coexist with radical, even iconoclastic, thought and action.
Ghostwriting Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 232

Ghostwriting Modernism

Authors: Helen Sword
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete with ghosts and spirits. In Ghostwriting Modernism she explores spiritualism's striking persistence
Modernism at the Microphone
Language: en
Pages: 256

Modernism at the Microphone

Authors: Melissa Dinsman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-24 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II is a comprehensive study of the role modernist writers' radio works played in the propaganda war
Angels of Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 226

Angels of Modernism

Authors: S. Hobson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-26 - Publisher: Springer

The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.
Locating the Gothic in British Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 257

Locating the Gothic in British Modernity

Authors: Sam Wiseman
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-31 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

This study considers how British literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic and supernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whether metropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-cultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literary representation.
Lesbian Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 224

Lesbian Modernism

Authors: English Elizabeth English
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-11 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The first book-length study to explore the importance of genre fiction for the body of literature we call lesbian modernismElizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to

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