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 ...

“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 ...

At a rare moment of rhetorical uncertainty in his now classic Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson acknowledges a source of challenge to the modern/postmodern ...

ANALYSIS: For many, 1922 marked a conscious break with of the old literary order and the beginning of a new literary future. However, not everyone agreed. L to R: James Joyce poses for a portrait by ...

IN an introductory lecture I gave last week at Harvard, I tried to clear the ground for laying the cornerstones of a National Anglo-American drama. I tried to justify the phrase ’ National ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

In any age, the significant individuals tend to be those who invent or seize upon a new means, a new medium, a new method, a fresh voice or device, and embody or exercise or exploit it to the fullest.