modernist poetics as reflected in the poetry of selected modernist poets

Modernist Yiddish Aesthetics, I. L. Peretz’s Middlebrow Yiddish Poetics,and the Place of Yehoash in Modernist and Middlebrow Literary History

Yehoash (the pen name for Solomon Bloomgarden, 1870-1927) was a revered Yiddish poet during the interwar period, the Holocaust, and the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.1 This essay establishes a critical methodology for recovering the work of this important Jewish poet. Before Yiddish poetry became closely identified with modernism, Yehoash’s inclusive and comprehensive aesthetic received ...

Meaning Making Through Constraint: Modernist Poetics and Game Design Analysis

The process of reading a modernist poem is just as much a process of deconstructing it: the language is designed to make meaning through inefficient means. The reader must decode the text. The process of reading is not unlike the process of playing. I compare masocore games with the poetics of William Carlos Williams to discuss how constraints can be meaningful through the affordances of each m...

The Theater in Modernist Thought

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Suffering the Modernist Legacy of Husserlian Phenomenology

Anita Desai's Novels as Post-modernist Feminist Projections

For centuries, women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men. In patriarchal Bourgeois society, the matriarchal community has been "humiliated", "afflicted", "silenced" and "tortured" socially and economically. With the post-modernizing age, women began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. In India, with the mat...

Symbolism as a Modernist Featurein a Passage to India

A passage to India by E.M. Forster is a modern novel written in 1924. It describes the modern movement in that period, so we could say that each movement of the human beings has its own characterizations which recognize it from other periods. Forester’s novel has its own features which recognize it from other ages in English literature. A Passage to India is one of the novels affected by Modern...