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January 1, 2025
Long considered an allegory about the depredations of Western imperialism, H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1897) can also be understood as a fable about the deleterious effects of advanced industrial capitalism. Wells associates the invading Martians ...
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January 1, 2023
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January 1, 2018
This chapter considers V. S. Naipaul as a belated modernist who exhibits what Harold Bloom terms an acute anxiety of influence. Naipaul denies any debt to Anglophone modernism and is widely considered a Dickensian realist. Focusing on The Enigma of Arrival ...
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August 11, 2014
This volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland. ...
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2011
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2011
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December 16, 2010
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This article examines literary modernism's neglect of social and political criticism. One possible reason for this relative neglect is the fact that modernist works of social and political criticism have assumed varied and peculiar shapes. The article expl ...
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December 2010
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2010
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2008
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2007
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1991
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1991
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