Category: Modernist Studies

Gertrude Stein has been making a comeback of sorts. She appears in Woody Allen’s new movie Midnight in Paris has spurred sales of her books. Her children’s book To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays was also recently published....

Since it is Bloomsday today, we offer two Bloomsday-related posts: Barry McCrea’s new book In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, examines the evolution of the family plot in Victorian and Modernist...

In In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, Barry McCrea shows how the reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. This is particularly true, as McCrea...

The following post is by Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach: “What do you do?” Joyce inquired. I told him about Shakespeare and Company. The name, and mine too, seemed to amuse him, and a charming smile...

“Modernism as we knew it is not going to return. But the digital technologies that are the future also look a lot like history.”—Mark Goble The Townsend Humanities Lab recently featured Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life, by Mark...

We continue our focus on Bloomsday with Keri Walsh’s recent and fascinating interview on Writers & Company. In the interview Walsh, the editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, discusses Syliva Beach and her remarkable relationship with James Joyce. Beach...

With Bloomsday, just a couple of days away, there’s not much time to brush up on your Joyce. However, a good place to start is James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks, whose cover includes this image of Marilyn...

Yesterday’s New York Times had a glowing review of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, edited by Keri Walsh. Beach was of course the founder and owner of the legendary Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company and the original publisher of Joyce’s...