Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler by Cristanne Miller (PDF)

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Cultures of Modernism explores how the structure and location of literary communities significantly influence who writes, what they write about, and their openness to formal experimentation. These influences particularly affect women writers. Author Cristanne Miller notes striking patterns of similarity in the concerns and lives of women living in geographically distant centers of modernist production. She looks at three significant poets—the American Marianne Moore, the British expatriate Mina Loy, and the German Else Lasker-Schüler—in the context of cultural, national, and local elements to argue that location significantly affected their performances of subjectivity, gender, race, and religion. The first book of its kind, Cultures of Modernism breaks new ground while it contributes to the ongoing reconception of the modernist period.”A fascinating, provocative, and genuinely original study of a ‘different’ modernism in poetry—namely, the Modernism of women poets.”—Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University”An important and ambitious work that makes major contributions to the fields of gender studies and modernist studies, and to the study of modernist poetry.”—Robin Schulze, Pennsylvania State University”Offers a welcome corrective to the unreflective critical tendency . . . to make broad claims about the historical experiences and cultural conundrums of ‘women,’ and particularly ‘women writers.’ Miller offers tour-de-force comparative readings . . . threading together the world-historical with the personal, poetics with the political, and wielding the instruments of scansion as deftly as a surgeon.”—Modernism/modernity, The Official Journal of the Modernist Studies AssociationCristanne Miller is Edward H. Butler Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.

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⭐Little is written in English about the respected German poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schuler, who is of interest to me as my grandfather’s cousin and contemporary in Elberfeld. The author makes interesting observations as to how the contrasting cultures of two modern cities, New York and Berlin, may have affected the work of her subjects (and other writers). The writing style a bit academic for my taste, which may not be shared by the broader audience for this work.

⭐Starts well with social and cultural descriptions of New York and Berlin but bogs down at times with biographical information. The poems seem more representative of the poets’s personalities than their habitation. It was impossible for me to understand most of the poems without Miller’s lucid analyses.

⭐I have submitted a more formal review elsewhere, but wanted to encourage readers who study modernist poetry to consult this book. You do not have to be a specialist in the poetry of Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, or Else Lasker-Schüler in order to find this book useful. Whereas we have heard something about Moore and Loy, learning about Else Lasker-Schüler’s alternate identity, the Jewish, male Prince Jussuf, was really entertaining, and an example of how travestism is not necessarily based on sexuality. Miller has done a great job of blending cultural studies with poetic analysis. I especially appreciated her comments on the cultural settings particular to women in New York and Berlin. The three main chapters deal with the naming acts of the poets, the ways in which they construct their poetic bodies, and how Judaic traditions have had an influence on the poetry of all three. This volume can be read cover to cover, or in isolated sections. Miller has taken examples from numerous unpublished manuscripts, so Cultures of Modernism is a find for those working specifically on these poets as well. Happy reading!

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