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Weak Theory, Weak Modernism
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This article is published in Modernism/modernity.The article was published on 2018-09-07. It has received 51 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Modernism (music).read more
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Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors begin with three stories, allegorized but rooted in my own experience in an evolving field of modernist studies, and explore the question of what is modernity, what is or was modernism.
After the Baby
TL;DR: Move!! as mentioned in this paper is a workout class with one of those exciting names that met at a roller skating rink downtown four days a week for a half-hour, and each class cost me seven dollars, which was a bit much, but I figured if I skipped lunch a couple days of the week I could afford it.
Terrorists, Zombies, and Robots: The Political Unconscious, Thematics, and Affectual Structures of the Post-9/11 American Fear Narrative
TL;DR: In this paper, Jacobs examined the post-9/11 American fear narrative across media and genre and proposed the concepts of the fear narrative, the primary fear theme, and the secondary fear theme.
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Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order: Offices, Institutions, and Aesthetics after 1919
TL;DR: The authors developed a new materialist reading of modernist politics hinged on the official figures that traverse both modernist texts and liberal order, and this official liberal world shapes interwar arts and letters from wartime Cambridge to revolutionary Shanghai.
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Fascism, comedy, and weak commitments in Nancy Mitford’s Wigs on the Green
Abstract: Occupying an ambiguous position in relation to the literary movements of the twentieth century, British writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) is most well-known for her postwar novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949). However, her interwar novels published in the early years of her writing career offer the potential for fruitful readings. This article takes as its focus Mitford’s 1935 novel Wigs on the Green, a romantic comedy revolving around a fascist pageant play. Through comedy, the novel critiques the aristocracy’s engagement with radical politics, which it interprets as an effort to restore traditional ideals of Englishness. Wigs on the Green, like many of Mitford’s novels, is characterized in its form and content by weak commitments which serve to generate the novel’s laughter and critique: from the characters’ naive acceptance of fascism to the novel’s subversion of the conventions of the romantic comedy. Wigs on the Green’s preoccupation with weak commitments is best revealed through a reading that positions Mitford as an "intermodern" writer, a framework I argue is attuned to weakness. Mitford’s novel thus reveals the usefulness of intermodernism for reading and recovering women’s comedy writing of the interwar years.
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