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41. 'Living in the same place': the old mononationalism and the new comparative literature.(Comparative Literature: States of the Art.): An article from: World Literature Today by Marjorie Perloff | |
Digital: 21
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(1995-03-22)
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42. The Lost Lunar Baedeker.(Brief Article): An article from: The Antioch Review by Dian Blakely Shoaf | |
Digital: 4
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(1997-06-22)
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43. Shadow-Box: A Novel by Antonia Logue | |
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(2000-09-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description A sweeping story of love, art, and boxing, this novel centers around the mysterious Arthur Cravan -- semiprofessional boxer, art critic, con man, nephew of Oscar Wilde. Cravan befriended Jack Johnson, the exiled black American boxer, in Paris; in 1916 they staged a fight to pay for Cravan's passage out of war-torn Europe. In New York, Cravan fell in love with the poet Mina Loy; they fled to Mexico and were married. Soon after, Cravan was lost at sea in a hurricane and presumed dead. In letters between Jack and Mina thirty years after Cravan's disappearance, Shadow-Box sketches this expansive tale in the era of tremendous social, artistic, and political upheaval before and during World War I. The novel begins in 1946, 30 years after Cravan disappeared off the coastof Guatemala, as Mina and Jack begin a late-life correspondence. Reflectiveand far-ranging, their letters both recount their life stories and attemptto come to terms with the enigmatic figure of Cravan. Jack and Mina'svoices too often sound alike, and the epistolary premise occasionally wearsthin ("I was worried you might not write back--I'm glad you wrote back sofast. You're right in what you said. All the stuff we know about each otherand we don't really know a damned thing..."). But there are other passagesthat ring both poetic and true to the historical characters they portray,as when Marinetti declares himself to Mina: 'Mrs Haweis, alone with stokers feeding the hellish fires of great ships,alone with black spectres who grope in the red-hot bellies of locomotiveslaunched on their crazy courses, alone with drunkards reeling like woundedbirds along the city walls, alone, it is you that I have come for MrsHaweis, you alone.'A few pages into each chapter, the narrative's sheer momentum takes over,and the reader is immersed in a world of boxing rings and surrealistsalons, bullfights, and high modernist art. Believable, beautifullyresearched, this is a first novel of astonishing confidence and range. Lookfor great things in Logue's future. --Mary Park Customer Reviews (8)
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44. Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers by Mary E. Galvin | |
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(1999-09-30)
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45. Shelf Life by Thom Gunn | |
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(1994-08-03)
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