Selected Secondary Reading
Synoptic
Peter Burger. Theory of the Avant-Garde (University of Minnesota Press, 1984)
Erin Carlston. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity
(Stanford UP, 1998)
Robert Crawford. Devolving English Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2000)
Wai Chee Dimock. Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep
Time (Princeton UP, 2006)
Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, eds. Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity
(Indiana UP, 2005)
Henry Louis Gates. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary
Criticism (Oxford UP, 1988)
Andrew Hewitt. Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
(Stanford UP, 1996)
Yunte Huang.
Transpacific Displacement:
Ethnography, Translation, and
Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (University of
California Press, 2002)
Rosalind Krauss. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
(MIT Press, 1986)
David Lloyd. Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment (Duke
UP, 1993)
Eds. Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson, The Edinburgh Companion to TwentiethCentury Literatures in English (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
Michael North. Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern (Oxford UP,
2002)
Marjorie Perloff. The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the
Language of Rupture (University of Chicago, 2004)
Martin Puchner. Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Garde
(Princeton UP, 2005)
Jean-Michel Rabaté. 1913: The Cradle of Modernism (Blackwell, 2007)
Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Tiews, eds. Crowds (Stanford UP, 2006)
Steven Yao. Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan,
2002)
Stein
Michael North. The Dialect of Modernism (Oxford University Press, 1998)
MacDiarmid
Margery Palmer McCulloch, Modernism and Nationalism: Literature and Society in
Scotland 1918-1939 (ASLS, 2004)
Alan Riach. Representing Scotland In Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography
(Palgrave, 2004)
Scott Lyall. Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry and Politics of Place (Edinburgh University
Press, 2007)
Roderick Watson, ‘The Modern Scottish Literary Renaissance’, in ed. Alan Riach and
Ian Brown, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Scottish Literature
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Alan Riach, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, in eds. Ian Brown et al, The Edinburgh History of
Scottish Literature, Vol. 3 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Alan Riach, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Epic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 1991)
Tanizaki
Tanizaki Junichiro. In Praise of Shadows (Vintage, 2001)
Harry Harootunian. Overcome By Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in
Interwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2001)
Harry Harootunian, History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the
Question of Everyday Life
Gwenn B. Petersen, The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and
Mishima (University of Hawai’i Press, 1979)
Michiko Suzuki, ‘Progress and Love Marriage: Reading Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Chijin
no ai, The Journal of Japanese Studies 31-2, Summer 2005, 357-384
Godard/ Situationism
Tom McDonough, ed. Guy Debord and the Situationist International (MIT Press,
2004)