Evolution of the Concept of <i>Barbarism</i> within the Context of the Franco-German Confrontation in the 1870s–1910s by K. S. Antonevich

“…Another finding, based on French literature, is the unobvious correlation between decadent world perception and political turmoil in France. Modernist poetry, literature and journalism compared the fall of the French Empire to the collapse of the Roman Empire and thus contributed to the conceptualizing of the German as barbarians. …”
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American modernism and the poetics of labour by Grogan, K

“…My dissertation thus presents a new reading of the formal innovations of U.S. modernist poetry—a reading grounded in historical research, theoretical thinking around labour, and close textual analysis.…”

Fronteras poéticas en la obra de Mina Loy / Poetic Borderlands in the Work of Mina Loy by Isabel Castelao Gómez

“…Key words: Mina Loy, modernist poetry, gender identities, cultural hybridity, romantic love, ethnicity, the concept of the «borderland», postmodern feminist criticism. …”
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To the Centennial of the Collection of German Expressionist Poems: the Anthology “Twilight of Humanity: a Symphony of the Newest Poetry” By Kurt Pinthus as one Whole Literary Work...

“…The interdisciplinary approach chosen to analyze the composition of the book is based on the fact that the context of a classical symphony is used as an element of research toolkit while studying modernist poetry. The point of view, popular in expressionist studies, that the main themes of the anthology are determined by its four subtitles (“Sturz und Schrei”, “Erweckung des Herzens”, “Aufruf und Empörung”, “Liebe den Menschen”), is opposed to the hypothesis, that these names are used by K. …”
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Monstrous (In)Authenticity: Text and Identity in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake by Nataša Kampmark

“…Wishing to explore the depths of degradation which, in their opinion, Australian modernist poetry had reached, two young disgruntled poets, Harold Stewart and James McAuley, conjured up a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, a mechanic and the author of The Darkening Ecliptic, a collection of about fifteen poems, whose verses were actually put together by Stewart and McAuley in a patchwork manner. …”
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THE ESSENCE OF AN IMAGE IN ENGLISH-AMERICAN IMAGISM: SINGULAR VERSUS UNIVERSAL by Yevheniya S. Chernokova.

“…Eliot called Imagism “an opening salvo” of English/ American Modernist poetry. It also explains the reason for a long-term effect of this short-term “school” in the English poetry of the twentieth century. …”
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Johannes Aavik ja vene kirjandus: biograafiline ja kultuurilis-ideoloogiline kontekst / Johannes Aavik and Russian Literature: Biographical, Cultural and Ideological Contexts by Tatjana Stepaništševa

“…Aavik saw a direct link between the work of Dostoyevsky and the formation of revolutionary sentiments in Russia, and between Russian modernist poetry and the social explosion in the late 1910s. …”
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AN APPROACH TO THE DROWNED SOULS, A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY VLADISLAV PETKOVIC DIS by Бранка М. Јакшић-Провчи

“…Dis’s modernistic poetry has attracted considerable attention of the literary critics in this century with the vast portion of the critical thought directed mainly towards his collection of poems The Drowned Souls. …”
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