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Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45
Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-gard...
Invisible Terrain
Invisible Terrain
In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...
Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639
Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1...
From Amazons to Zombies
From Amazons to Zombies
How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through h...
Another Future
Another Future
Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, Alan Gilbert, Arts and society, 2005, Wesleyan University Press...
Three Apostles of Russian Music
Three Apostles of Russian Music
The Three Apostles of Russian Music looks at three figures in the Soviet avant-garde who led modernist music in the 1920s. Mosolov, Popov, and Roslavets were popular composers who ...
Other Planets
Other Planets
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker...