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Modernism Lab About The Authors By Year Undergraduate Gateway Search Modernism Lab By Author Search for texts by author By Year Search for authors & texts by year Collaborative Research on Literary Modernism The Lotus Eaters” by Ally Findley Plot The Lotus Eaters” episode is the fifth episode in Ulysses, and one of the shortest chapters in the novel. In this episode, Bloom begins wandering through Dublin, on his way to Paddy Dignam’s funeral. It is a hot summer day, and the humidity perpetuates a mood of sluggishness. Bloom, in his… Continue Reading The Lotus Eaters” Categories: James Joyce Tags: James Joyce , The Lotus Eaters , Ulysses Leave a comment Reflections on the Modernism Lab 8/12/17 By Sam Alexander, in response to Ally Findley A recent book on modernist DH projects includes a description of Modernism Lab in an appendix titled Field Guide to Digital Projects”: Focusing on the networks of people, places, ideas, and works of the early modernist period (1914-1926), the Modernism Lab grew out of Pericles Lewis’s… Continue Reading Reflections on the Modernism Lab Categories: About Tags: Sam Alexander Leave a comment Sam Alexander Sam Alexander, Associate Professor of English at Endicott College, was managing editor of the Modernism Lab from 2007-2013. He has written on the problem of population in Joyce’s Ulysses for Novel and on democratic form in modernist fiction for Gregory Castle’s recent History of the Modernist Novel. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Demographic Modernism” and helping to… Continue Reading Sam Alexander Categories: Uncategorized Leave a comment Anthony Domestico Anthony Domestico is an assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY and the books columnist for Commonweal. His book, Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period​​, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. You can view his Purchase College faculty page here, and his website containing his book reviews and essays here. Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Anthony Domestico , Biography Leave a comment A Room of One’s Own by Pericles Lewis A Room of One’s Own (1929) is Virginia Woolf‘s most famous work of feminist literary criticism. If much of Woolf’s feminist writing concerns the problem of equality of access to goods that have traditionally been monopolized by men, in this work Woolf prefigures two concerns of later feminism: the reclaiming of a… Continue Reading A Room of One’s Own Categories: Virginia Woolf Tags: 1929 , A Room of One’s Own , Pericles Lewis , Virginia Woolf Leave a comment Adolphe Appia by Pericles Lewis The Swiss theorist Adolphe Appia (1862-1928), like the English actor and set designer Gordon Craig, created methods for implementing Richard Wagner’s vision of the total work of art” in the theater. Appia, in The Staging of Wagnerian Music Drama (1895) and Music and the Art of Theatre (1899), proposed to banish painted… Continue Reading Adolphe Appia Categories: Other Modernist Figures Tags: Adolphe Appia , Biography , Other Modernist Figures , Pericles Lewis Leave a comment Art by Elyse Graham Clive Bell’s theories of art shaped themselves under two major influences. One was the ethical philosopher G.E. Moore‘s defense of his field: for a set of things to shelter under one class, they must have a common property—in the case of ethics, goodness—which must really exist. 1 Bell, who like all art… Continue Reading Art Categories: Other Modernist Figures Tags: 1914 , Art , Clive Bell , Elyse Graham , Other Modernist Figures Leave a comment Reflections Upon War and Death by Jessica Technow The declaration of World War I in 1914 marked the beginning of an era which to this day has had lasting effects on humanity. New technologies changed the face of warfare and, for the first time, trenches were the main method utilized in military strategy. On the home front, civilians became engrossed… Continue Reading Reflections Upon War and Death Categories: Other Modernist Figures Tags: 1915 , Other Modernist Figures , Reflections Upon War and Death , Sigmund Freud Leave a comment The Professor’s House by Jack Skeffington In the introduction to Not Under Forty, Willa Cather’s 1936 collection of essays, she (in)famously writes that the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,” an opinion that, if nothing else, has fairly successfully separated her from the ranks of artists and authors we have come to call modernists.[1] The judgment,… Continue Reading The Professor’s House Categories: Other Modernist Figures Tags: 1925 , Jack Skeffington , Other Modernist Figures , The Professor’s House , Willa Cather Leave a comment Roger Fry: A Biography by Michael Shapiro In Roger Fry—the last book she saw to publication—Virginia Woolf experiments with the structure and style of biography. She exercises editorial control to burnish the occasionally imperfect life of her subject and, by implication, to smooth over public critiques of the Bloomsbury group. Fry (1866–1934) was an English artist and art scholar,… Continue Reading Roger Fry: A Biography Categories: Other Modernist Figures , Virginia Woolf Tags: 1940 , Roger Fry , Roger Fry: A Biography , Virginia Woolf Leave a comment Posts navigation Older posts Footer Content Skip to toolbar Log In...