Joshua Schuster: 3 books
The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent...
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own
Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors...