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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of
a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War,
based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The
intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power earned Crane
instant success, and led to his spending most of his brief
remaining life war reporting. The other stories collected in this
volume draw on this experience; `The Open Boat' (1898) was inspired
by his fifty hour struggle with waves after his ship was sunk
during an expedition to Cuba; `The Monster' (1899) is a bitterly
ironic commentary on the ostracization of a doctor for harbouring
the servant who was disfigured and lost his sanity rescuing his
son. As a rare example of Crane working in a vein of American
Gothic, it is particularly striking for its treatment of race and
social injustice. `The Blue Hotel' traces the events that lead to a
murder at a bar in a small Nebraska town. This edition is the most
generously annotated edition of Crane's work, exploring it from a
fresh critical perspective and focusing on his place as an
experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as
literary revisionism. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This book explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the
second half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the familiar notion
that modernism dissolved during the 1930s, it argues that the
fusion of rationalism and mysticism which characterises modernist
poetics was sustained long after its politics had been discredited
by the events of World War Two. The book's central concern is why
the aesthetic mysticism that Walter Benjamin called the faith of
those 'who made common cause with Fascism' continued to be a
guiding principle for literary elites and countercultural movements
alike. New light is shed on the relationship between occultism and
the Pound tradition, especially in terms of Pound's influence on
post-1945 Anglo-American poetry, and a critical theory of 'late
modernism' is offered which shows how belated notions of cultural
redemption have survived in contemporary poetry. This wide-ranging
contextual study focuses on the poetry of Ezra Pound, Charles
Olson, Paul Celan, and J H Prynne, and explores the development of
modernist culture through its theories of phenomenology,
psychoanalysis, science, ethnography, and ancient history. -- .
Anthony Mellors was born in the fen country, where he had a
troubled childhood and failed to attend various schools. He worked
as a lithographic artist for printing firms in Skegness and Great
Malvern, and lived in Exeter with a group of itinerant painters,
before going up to read English at the universities of Sussex and
Oxford. He has since lectured in English and American Literature at
universities in Oxford, Durham, Manchester, and Birmingham, as well
as helping to maintain the collection at The Poetry Library in
London and (reluctantly) becoming a house restorer. In 1990, he
founded (with Andrew Lawson) fragmente: a magazine of contemporary
poetics. At the time of writing, he lives in north Norfolk.
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