Peter Quartermain

Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock

Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the experimental contemporary writers, including Stein and Zukofsky, whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that the explosion of such modern writing is linked to the severe political, social, and economic dislocation of non-English-speaking immigrants who arriving in America at the turn of the century found themselves uprooted from their tradition and disassociated from their culture.

From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe

Disjunctive Poetics

Eileen Gregory

An exhaustive treatment of the modern American poet H. D.’s poetic engagement with Greece.

Classic Lines

H. D. and Hellenism

Philip M. Weinstein

Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns offers a reading of William Faulkner by viewing his masterpieces through the lens of current critical theory. The book addresses both the power of his work and the current theoretical issues that call that power into question.

A Cosmos No One Owns

Faulkner's Subject

Lyndall Gordon

The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 has provided this occasion to review his life and work, and reassess him in the light of various critical developments in the new historicism, feminism, and reader-reception theory that have emerged since the "New Criticism".

The Modernist in History

T. S. Eliot

Sara Blair

An examination of Henry James's work in the context of popular culture, first published in 1996.

Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

Ralph Bauer

Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. He discusses narratives of shipwreck, captivity, and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies. Bauer positions the narrative models promoted by the 'New Sciences' during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geopolitical question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires.

Empire, Travel, Modernity

The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures

Ross Posnock

A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

The Art of Immaturity

Philip Roth's Rude Truth

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934

Richard Walsh

Novel Arguments, first published in 1995, argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world.

Reading Innovative American Fiction

Novel Arguments

Janet Galligani Casey

A study of the the role of the 'feminine' in Dos Passos's fiction.

Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

Brenda Murphy

Clinton Vane de Brosse Black

The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.

Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock

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