Description
Drawing from recent research that seeks to expand our understanding of modernism, this volume offers practical pedagogical approaches for teaching modernist literature and culture in the twenty-first century classroom.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Laurel Harris, Emily M. Hinnov and Lauren M. Rosenblum PART I: THE INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM ON LITERARY COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 1. Teaching Modernism through the Phantasmic Mother: Maternal Longing in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Gertrude Käsebier's Photography; Emily M. Hinnov 2. Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze: 'Inter-Active' Cinema in the Film Writing of H.D. and Dorothy Richardson; Laurel Harris 3. 'Things, Things, Things': Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Beauty of Magazine Culture; Lauren M. Rosenblum PART II: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 4. Modernism and the Politics of Poverty: Teaching Lola Ridge, Jacob Riis, and Social Justice; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega 5. Editing Children of the Sun: Jessie Redmon Fauset, Little Magazines, and the Cultivation of the New Negro; Emily Wojcik 6. Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark: Community, Race, and Empire; Judy Suh PART III: REINVENTION WITHIN COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 7. 'War trod her low': Recovery and Community in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Opus 7; Rita Kondrath 8. From Alienation to Coven: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Utopian Modernism; Noreen O'Conner 9. 'The Look in a Dog's Eyes': The Animals in the Dining Room in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; Vicki Tromanhauser 10. The Unwritten Narrative of Modernism and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; Bonnie Roos 11. Woolf and...: Teaching Besidedness; Robin Hackett Afterword 12. Some Notes on Radical Teaching; Jane Marcus
