The writers in this study were living at the edge of change, in a world severely rocked by world conflict – a 'maelstrom' of upheaval of values, of community standards, and of philosophical visions. Their task was to "give [themselves and others] the power to change the world that is changing them, to make their way through the maelstrom and make it their own." Their response was not to embrace the chaos, but to move through it and re-establish limits in the broader beyond.
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New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with the Great War.
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The twentieth-century was arguably the most belligerent in history, marked as it was by a culture of war – that is, values, attitudes, and so on, which support the waging of war. At the same time, this culture shifted profoundly so that now, in the twenty-first century, we can plausibly think about a culture of peace. This book looks at turning-points in the twentieth-century cultural attitudes towards war, from the sacrificed soldier of World War
One to the anti-war demonstrations of the Sixties, and beyond to the ubiquitous War on Terrorism.
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Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the range of insight of which this criticism is capable. Focusing on popular culture, this volume is in the vanguard of our collective reflections on the directions in which our various societies are going.
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Norris, Nanette. "Women without Men: The Separate Universe of Women's Utopian Fiction, 1915-1985." Pp.119-148.
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Norris, Nanette and Nancie Kahan. "Creating Gender Expectations through Children's Advertising." Pp. 273-286.
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Norris, Nanette. "Vietnam: Memory of Desecration in Brian de Palma's Casualties of War." Pp. 141-150.
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Norris, Nanette. "The Road to Paris in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato." Pp. 117-130.
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Norris, Nanette. "War and the Liminal Space: Situating The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" in the Twentieth-Century Narrative of Trauma and Survival." Pp. 71-89.