Robert Volpicelli

Transatlantic Modernism and the Us Lecture Tour

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the twentieth-century transatlantic literary lecture tour, with a focus on the role that 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198914792
• ISBN-10: 0198914792
• Artikelnr.: 71808954

Autorenporträt

Robert Volpicelli is an Assistant Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College where he specializes in transnational modernisms and modern poetry. His essays on modernist literature and culture have appeared in such journals as Textual Practice, NOVEL, and Twentieth-Century Literature, among others. He also co-edited a recent issue of College Literature on the topic of "Poetry Networks."

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Modernism, On the Circuit
* 1: Curiosity: Oscar Wilde, P.T. Barnum, and the Culture of
Self-Improvement
* 2: Diplomat: W.B. Yeats and the Voice of Ireland
* 3: Guru: Rabindranath Tagore's Political Spirit
* 4: Documentarian: Touring the Great Depression with Gertrude Stein
* 5: Correspondent: Speech and Allegory in W.H. Auden's World War II
Lectures
* Coda: The End of the Tour