THE SPACE BETWEEN
Literature and Culture 1914-1945

 

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Past Issues of Journal

THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Volume 5, Issue 1, 2009

Dries Vrijders, "Kenneth Burke’s New Deal"

M. Elizabeth Weiser, "‘Dramatistic to the Core’: Allen Tate and A Grammar of Motives"

Stephen Llano, "Placing the Poetic Corrective: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke, and the Poetic Imaginary"

Marguerite Helmers, "A Visual Rhetoric of World War I Battlefield Art: C. R. W. Nevinson, Mary Riter Hamilton, and Kenneth Burke’s Scene"

Book Reviews:

Jeffrey M. Heath,ed. The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E. M. Forster and Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds, The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition, reviewed by Stuard Christie
Martin Harries’s Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, reviewed by Jared Stark
Marina MacKay’s Modernism and World War II and Kristine Miller's British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War, reviewed by Phyllis Lassner
Mary Lynn Stewart’s Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919-1939, reviewed by Melissa Bradshaw
Faye Hammill’s Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars, reviewed by Catherine Keyser

 

THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Volume 4, Issue 1, 2008

Eleanor F. Moseman, "E.L. Kirchner, Czech Cubism, and Representation of the Spirit in Portraiture, 1915-1918"

Douglas Higbee, "Constructions of Comradeship: Ivor Gurney and the British First World War Veterans' Movement"

Lindsay Tuggle, "'A love so fugitive and so complete:' Recovering the Queer Subtext of Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows"

Abbie Garrington, "Counter Discourse: Advertising Technologies and Textual Impact"

Jean-Christophe Murat, "The Cost of Myth: Cyril Connolly and 'Romanticism'"

James W. McManus, "Mirrors, TRANS/formation and Slippage in the Five-Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp"

 

Book Reviews:

Richard Godden and Martin Crawford, ed. Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939, reviewed by Leigh Anne Duck
Christine Bold’s Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts, reviewed by J.J. Butts
Andrew E. Kersten’s Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II, reviewed by Michael Pierce
Peter J. Kalliney’s Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness, reviewed by Judy Suh
Catherine Clay’s British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and Friendship and Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt's Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women's Fiction between the Wars, reviewed by Janine Utell
Michael Cotsell’s The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930, reviewed by Sarah Bay-Cheng
H.D., ed. Cynthia Hogue and Julie Vandivere; The Sword Went Out to Sea: (Synthesis of a Dream) by Delia Alton; and Bryher's The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs, reviewed by Cyrena N Pondrom

 

THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Volume 31, issue 1, 2007

A Special Topics Issue: Technology, Media, Culture
Guest Editor: Debra Rae Cohen, University of South Carolina


Roger Rothman, "René Magritte and 'The Shop-Window Quality of Things'"

Charles Sumner, "Wyndham Lewis' Theory of Mass Culture"

Jeffrey Sconce, "Wireless Women: The 'Mass' Retreat of Brighton Rock"

Ashlie Sponenberg, "The Long Arm of Discipline: South Riding, Documentary Writing, and the Cinematic Gaze"

Alex Goody, "Cyborgs, Women, and New York Dada"

Jay L. Gordon, "Punch-Card Sorters and Rapid Selectors: Information Management Between the Wars"

 

Book Reviews:

Patrick Collier's Modernism on Fleet Street, reviewed by Loretta Stec
Timothy C. Campbell's Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi and Todd Avery's Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938, reviewed by Robin Feenstra
Frances Guerin's A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany, reviewed by Robin Murray
Michael North's Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, reviewed by Robert Cochran
Elizabeth Otto's Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, reviewed by Rachel Epp Buller

 

THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Volume 2, issue 1, 2006

Michael Saler, "Modern Enchantments: The Canny Wonders and Uncanny Others of H. P. Lovecraft"

Christina Hauck, “'The Poetry That Dare Not Speak its Name': Modernist Aesthetic in the Case of Lord Alfred Douglas and Marie Carmichael Stopes"

Dawn Bellamy, "Keith Douglas, Isaac Rosenberg, and Edmund Blunden"

Janine Utell, "The Unburiable: Death Ritual in Osbert Sitwell’s Poetry of the Great War"

Cheryl Hindrichs, "H. D.’s Palimpsest: The Work of the 'Advance-Guard' in a History of Trauma"

J. J. Butts, "Writing Projects: New Deal Guidebooks, Community, and Housing Reform in New York City"


Book Reviews:

Stan Smith's Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity: Ireland between Fantasy and History, reviewed by Michael Coyle
Lawrence Rainey's Revisiting The Waste Land, reviewed by David Chinitz
Romana Huk's Stevie Smith: Between the Lines, reviewed by Kristin Bluemel
Christopher Murray's Sean O'Casey, Writer at Work: A Biography, reviewed by Steve Cloutier
Wendy Pollard's Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics: The Vagaries of Literary Reception, reviewed by Phyllis Lassner

 

THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Volume 1, issue 1, 2005

Claudia Mesch, "Serious Play: Games in Twentieth-century Modernism"

Liisa Stephenson, "A Portrait of the Artist as Landscape: F. H. Varley and A. M. Klein"

Natalie Golubov, "Storm Jameson's No Time Like the Present: The Expatriate in Patria"

Jamie Carr, "Aesthetics, Politics and the Other: Toward an Ethical Theory of Art in Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet"

Jon Cockburn, "Clothing the Soviet Mechnical-flâneuse"

 

 

Book Reviews:

Jed Esty's A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England and Jane Garrity's Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary, reviewed by Ashlie Sponenberg
David E. Chinitz's T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, reviewed by Christina Hauck
Phyllis Lassner's Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, reviewed by Mary Anne Schofield
Keith Perry's The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel, reviewed by Robert H. Brinkmeyer



PRECURSORS AND AFTERMATHS: Literature in English, 1914-1945
Volume 2, issue 1, May 2003:

Leon Surette, "Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's"

Peter Marks, "'The Plain Reader Be Damned': Literary Periodicals and the Construction of Modernism"

Joe Brooker, "'A Balloon Filled with Verbal Gas': Blather and the Irish Ready-Made School"

Lisa Colletta, "British Modernism and Dark Humor"

Paul Skrebs, "'Between the Real and Really Made Up': Mimetic Strategies in Dan Billany's Wartime Novel The Trap"

Book Reviews:

Bonnie Kime Scott's edition of the Selected Letters of Rebecca West, reviewed by Loretta Stec
Michael T. Saler's The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground, reviewed by Kristin Bluemel

 

PRECURSORS AND AFTERMATHS: Literature in English, 1914-1945
Volume 1, issue 1, May 2000:

Jamie Harker, "Modernists Passing the Buck: 'Orientals,' Middlebrows and The Good Earth"

Shannon Case, "Lilied Tongues and Yellow Claws: The Invention of Limehouse, London's Chinatown, 1914-1945"

Sara Haslam, "Modern Knowledge and Ford's Modern Novel"

Adam Piette, "Writing the Nation at War: George Orwell, Alan Ross, and Sidney Keyes"

Mark A. R. Facknitz, "'The Undiscovered country, from whose bourn . . .': Shakespeare and Conrad in Frederic Manning's Great War"

Book Reviews:

Patrick Deane's History in Our Hands: A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture, and Politics from the 1930s, reviewed by Patrick Quinn