Classic literature has long served as inspiration for artists in different fields, and the world of cinema is no exception. The intersection of classic elements and modern twists helps pay homage to ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism examines the most significant Japanese art and literary magazine of the early twentieth century, Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910-1923). In this volume Erin Schoneveld ...

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

Now in his mid-80s, Yale professor Peter Gay has been one of our chief chroniclers of "the modern" for more than 50 years. As a young scholar, he specialized in studies of the 18th-century ...

As a collage artist and reviewer, she was an it-girl of avant-garde art. But she turned on that world in 1984 with her salvo of a book, “Has Modernism Failed?” By Penelope Green Suzi Gablik, an art ...

This special issue of English Language Notes invites contributions that examine the dynamic exchanges of literature and other nonliterary forms between Eastern and Western countries throughout the 20 ...