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Perspectives on mobility
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ISBN: 9401209642 9789401209649 9042037083 9789042037083 1299879497 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.


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Anti-Nazi modernism
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ISBN: 0810166372 9780810166370 9780810128637 0810128632 Year: 2013 Publisher: Evanston, Illinois


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Troublemakers
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ISBN: 1283864630 081355313X 9780813553139 9780813551890 9780813551906 0813551897 0813551900 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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William Scott’s Troublemakers explores how a major change in the nature and forms of working-class power affected novels about U.S. industrial workers in the first half of the twentieth century. With the rise of mechanization and assembly-line labor from the 1890's to the 1930's, these laborers found that they had been transformed into a class of “mass” workers who, since that time, have been seen alternately as powerless, degraded victims or heroic, empowered icons who could rise above their oppression only through the help of representative organizations located outside the workplace. Analyzing portrayals of workers in such novels as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Ruth McKenney's Industrial Valley, and Jack London’s The Iron Heel, William Scott moves beyond narrow depictions of these laborers to show their ability to resist exploitation through their direct actions—sit-down strikes, sabotage, and other spontaneous acts of rank-and-file “troublemaking” on the job—often carried out independently of union leadership. The novel of the mass industrial worker invites us to rethink our understanding of modern forms of representation through its attempts to imagine and depict workers’ agency in an environment where it appears to be completely suppressed.

"You factory folks who sing this rhyme will surely understand"
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ISBN: 1135515395 1281082422 9786611082420 0203960173 9780203960172 0415977584 9780415977586 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Routledge


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From red-baiting to blacklisting : the labor plays of Manny Fried
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ISBN: 0809337762 Year: 2020 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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"This book examines Manny Fried's career as a labor organizer and blacklisted citizen by exploring his major labor plays and the political atmosphere that nurtured them"--


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Modernism and Still Life
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ISBN: 9781474455152 9781474455138 1474455158 9781474455169 1474455166 1474481213 9781474481212 1474455131 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.


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Modernism and still life : artists, writers, dancers
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ISBN: 1474481213 1474455158 1474455131 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.


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The mediating nation
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ISBN: 9781469618456 9781469618463 146961846X 9781469618470 1469618478 1469618451 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chapel Hill

The novel and the American left : critical essays on depression-era fiction
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ISBN: 0877458804 1587294753 9781587294754 9780877458807 Year: 2004 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa press

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The first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Casey consolidates and expands this field of study by providing a more specific consideration of individual novels and novelists, many of which are reaching new contemporary audiences t

Trinity of passion : the literary left and the antifascist crusade
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ISBN: 9780807830758 0807830755 1469618826 1469603284 0807882364 9780807882368 9781469603285 9798893132120 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Probing in rich and haunting detail the controversial i

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