Alys Moody
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alys Moody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alys |
| FAMILY NAME | Moody |
| SIGNATURE | MOODY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7584-4510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Hungry Generation and the Cold War University
In 1967, the Beat “mimeo mag” Salted Feathers published a special issue dedicated to the Hungry Generation, a group of young Bengali poets who were then receiving some attention in US avant-garde poetry circles. This article shows that this special issue can productively be read as a product of changes in the research university in the context of the Cold War, as the university increasingly became a site for cross-cultural exchange. While this ac…
The Future of Modernist Risk
This article examines Chris Kraus’s work, especially her 2016 short story ‘Face’ and her 2006 novel Torpor, to argue that women’s engagement with modernism returns in global art as a risk, bound up with the material inequalities produced by globalisation. It shows how, in Kraus’s work, the legacies of modernism, the production of ‘backwardness’, and the exclusion of reproductive labour together generate an uneven temporality for the global, where…
The Art of Hunger
As literary modernism was emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of its most important figures and precursors began to talk about their own writing as a kind of starvation. The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism uses this trope as a lens through which to examine contemporary literature’s engagement with modernism, arguing that hunger offers a way of grappling with the fate of aesthet…
Starving Across the Color Line
Chapter 4 examines the writing of J. M. Coetzee in the context of late apartheid South Africa, where the call to political responsibility returns with a new urgency. Coetzee breaks with this consensus, maintaining a commitment to aesthetic autonomy through his investment in a European modernist tradition that incorporates the art of hunger. In a context where hunger itself was highly politicized, Coetzee’s 1983 novel Life & Times of Michael K pro…
At the End of My Hands by Equal Voices Arts
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
In 2007, Paul Chan mounted a project, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans , that took as its centerpiece the performance of Samuel Beckett's modernist play Waiting for Godot in the devastated streets of post-Katrina New Orleans. This essay argues that this transnational, community-based performance of a quintessentially modernist play offers a way of reconceptualizing transnational modernism in light of the dynamics of performance, and intercultural…
Publishing Samuel Beckett
Mark Nixon, London: British Library, 2011, 252 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN 9780712358262 In recent years, scholarship on Samuel Beckett has taken a turn for the empirical. As more archival material h
Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit
Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit
T. S. Eliot's lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in the collection map Eliot's spiritual geography: the American taproot of his poetry, his profound engagement with the philosophy and religion of India, his near and yet detached relations with England, and his problematic cultivation of a European mind. At the centre of the collection is a study of the …
The Future of Modernist Risk
This article examines Chris Kraus’s work, especially her 2016 short story ‘Face’ and her 2006 novel Torpor, to argue that women’s engagement with modernism returns in global art as a risk, bound up with the material inequalities produced by globalisation. It shows how, in Kraus’s work, the legacies of modernism, the production of ‘backwardness’, and the exclusion of reproductive labour together generate an uneven temporality for the global, where…
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
In 2007, Paul Chan mounted a project, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans , that took as its centerpiece the performance of Samuel Beckett's modernist play Waiting for Godot in the devastated streets of post-Katrina New Orleans. This essay argues that this transnational, community-based performance of a quintessentially modernist play offers a way of reconceptualizing transnational modernism in light of the dynamics of performance, and intercultural…
Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit
T. S. Eliot's lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in the collection map Eliot's spiritual geography: the American taproot of his poetry, his profound engagement with the philosophy and religion of India, his near and yet detached relations with England, and his problematic cultivation of a European mind. At the centre of the collection is a study of the …
Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit
Publishing Samuel Beckett
Mark Nixon, London: British Library, 2011, 252 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN 9780712358262 In recent years, scholarship on Samuel Beckett has taken a turn for the empirical. As more archival material h
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
In 2007, Paul Chan mounted a project, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans , that took as its centerpiece the performance of Samuel Beckett's modernist play Waiting for Godot in the devastated streets of post-Katrina New Orleans. This essay argues that this transnational, community-based performance of a quintessentially modernist play offers a way of reconceptualizing transnational modernism in light of the dynamics of performance, and intercultural…
At the End of My Hands by Equal Voices Arts
The Art of Hunger
As literary modernism was emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of its most important figures and precursors began to talk about their own writing as a kind of starvation. The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism uses this trope as a lens through which to examine contemporary literature’s engagement with modernism, arguing that hunger offers a way of grappling with the fate of aesthet…
Starving Across the Color Line
Chapter 4 examines the writing of J. M. Coetzee in the context of late apartheid South Africa, where the call to political responsibility returns with a new urgency. Coetzee breaks with this consensus, maintaining a commitment to aesthetic autonomy through his investment in a European modernist tradition that incorporates the art of hunger. In a context where hunger itself was highly politicized, Coetzee’s 1983 novel Life & Times of Michael K pro…
The Future of Modernist Risk
This article examines Chris Kraus’s work, especially her 2016 short story ‘Face’ and her 2006 novel Torpor, to argue that women’s engagement with modernism returns in global art as a risk, bound up with the material inequalities produced by globalisation. It shows how, in Kraus’s work, the legacies of modernism, the production of ‘backwardness’, and the exclusion of reproductive labour together generate an uneven temporality for the global, where…
The Hungry Generation and the Cold War University
In 1967, the Beat “mimeo mag” Salted Feathers published a special issue dedicated to the Hungry Generation, a group of young Bengali poets who were then receiving some attention in US avant-garde poetry circles. This article shows that this special issue can productively be read as a product of changes in the research university in the context of the Cold War, as the university increasingly became a site for cross-cultural exchange. While this ac…
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