The Avant-Folkways of Lorine Niedecker

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Hair
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Local History ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Gift Books ◽  
Small Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lorine Niedecker ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Folk Poetry

This chapter examines the ‘avant-folkways’ of Lorine Niedecker and her poetry and demonstrates how Niedecker’s poetry of the 1940s and 1950s draws on various aspects of folk, including folk speech, nursery rhymes and ballads, local history, and artisanal and domestic craft practices. Niedecker’s folk sensibility, chapter 1 argues, was enhanced considerably by her work on the Federal Writers’ Project, from 1938 to 1941. Niedecker’s poetry, it is argued, undermines the dichotomies that underpin the pervasive ideological construction of American folk in the twentieth century—notions of the regional versus the cosmopolitan, the modern versus the traditional—as well as popular distinctions regarding ‘formal’ versus ‘folk’ poetry, art, and aesthetics. Chapter 1 also examines the social implications of Niedecker’s folkways and their defining role in her own ‘renaissance’ across the Atlantic, in England and Scotland, via the channels of small press networks in the 1960s that her own handmade gift books, it is argued, significantly prefigures.

scholarly journals RIAK-RIAK POSMODERN DALAM CERPEN ABRACADABRA KARYA DANARTO

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dudy Syafruddin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S

Literature is a product of culture keeping abreast of human mind. Literary works is a means for the authors to express the social phenomenon in his life. The discourses about postmodernism in the second half of twentieth century, as a part of the story of human mind, was a profound interest for the Authors. In Indonesia, the postmodern discourse has come up in the 1960s. This paper involves the elements of Postmodernism in the short story “Abacadabra” written by Danarto. The dominant elements in this short story are parody, fragmentary, and historiographic metafiction.

Lifestyle

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-301
Author(s):  
Ryan Patrick Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This essay offers a genealogy of lifestyle, a category widely used in the 1960s to mark dissident kinship networks and sexual practices: single parenting, bisexuality, gender nonconformity, polyamory, cohabitation, and communal living, among many others. I argue that the concept of lifestyle emerged in a desire among white mid-twentieth-century suburbanites for the social and sexual worlds that preceded rapid suburbanization, those most visible in the immigrant industrial metropolis at its peak in the decades immediately before the United States drastically restricted immigration in 1924. Even at the apex of suburbanization in the 1960s, many people refused to comply with the demand for suburban domesticity, staying in the city, joining countercultural groups, or adopting what came to be called alternative lifestyles. But in that act of dissent, urban planners, real estate developers, and marketing experts saw an opportunity and began to sell urban lifestyle landscapes that they claimed would reproduce the sexual heterogeneity of the early twentieth-century industrial metropolis. By the 1980s, as ever more people lived outside the nuclear family, a growing lifestyle market drove up prices in central cities that amplified the class and race exclusions that the social movements of the 1960s contested. This article is therefore both a critical and a recuperative reading of lifestyle, one that uses the category to show how dissident sexualities can be both the harbinger of the niche-marketed gentrified city and an incitement to new ways of living and loving that advance the pursuit of economic justice.

Partisanship, Territorialism, and Transregional Networks of Belonging

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Junaid Quadri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Of Affairs

Chapter 1 sketches the historical and transregional context of the project, examining two acrimonious episodes local to twentieth-century Egypt to lay bare the ever-present background contexts of Muslim history and the greater Muslim world. Paying close attention to the social and political developments that dominated Egyptian intellectual life at the turn of the century, I examine two exchanges between Bakhīt and Rashīd Riḍā to lay out the terrain of partisanship and territorialism that so heavily structured Cairo’s intellectual scene in the early twentieth century. As a result of what Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen has termed the “Salafi Press,” the previous monopoly on Islamic interpretation held by the Azharī ulama began to loosen, and the latter began to sense their authority being threatened. These resulted in bitter polemics but also, I argue, a substantial reconfiguration of the intellectual landscape simply by virtue of the indefatigable onslaught of the Modernists, especially Riḍā. This state of affairs motivated the ulama to draw on resources that exceeded their specific context both historically and geographically, resulting in a certain rearrangement of authority that relied on older structural features of the madhhab to create new networks of belonging and allegiance.

Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Hair
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Small Press ◽  
Lorine Niedecker ◽  
American Poets ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Avant-Folk is the first comprehensive study of a loose collective of important British and American poets, publishers, and artists (including Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams) and the intersection of folk and modernist, concrete and lyric poetics within the small press poetry networks that developed around these figures from the 1950s up to the present day. This book argues that the merging of the demotic with the avant-garde is but one of the many consequences of a particularly vibrant period of creative exchange when this network of poets, publishers, and artists expanded considerably the possibilities of small press publishing. Avant-Folk explores how, from this still largely unexplored body of work, emerge new critical relations to place, space, and locale. Paying close attention to the transmission of demotic cultural expressions, this study of small press poetry networks also revises current assessments regarding the relationship between the cosmopolitan and the regional and between avant-garde and vernacular, folk aesthetics. Readers of Avant-Folk will gain an understanding of how small press publishing practices have revised these familiar terms and how they reconceive the broader field of twentieth-century British and American poetry.

scholarly journals A Society of Solitaries: An Anglophone Literary Circle in Montreal

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Frédette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Literary Community ◽  
Small Press ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Literary Circles

Quebec has been home to a rich and vibrant English-language literary community since the nineteenth century. The rise of the Canadian small-press movement in the 1960s gave way to a revival of the English-language publishing industry in Montreal, which had considerably dwindled at the turn of the twentieth century. Poets benefited greatly from this phenomenon, and literary coteries of poets were formed as a result, in particular the Vehicule Poets, associated with the Véhicule Art Gallery and with Véhicule Press in the early 1970s, and a group of poets who were associated with New Delta and later with the Signal Editions poetry series. This paper focuses on the ways in which literary circles are formed and how they might be identified, and uses the Jubilate Circle, a group of poets revolving around Signal Editions and consisting of Michael Harris, David Solway, Carmine Starnino and Eric Ormsby, as a case study.

Trending

On Trend ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Devon Powers
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Anticipate Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Trend Forecasting ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Chapter 1 begins in early twentieth-century America and offers a prehistory of trend forecasting. The era saw society swiftly modernizing; in turn, the social sciences were producing a surfeit of data about life and culture. Observers, social critics, and government technocrats began to think of these data as predictive and explored how they could be used to make decisions and dampen uncertainty about the future. In light of these developments, “trends” emerged as a tool, allowing data to be used to anticipate change. The chapter highlights the 1933 study Recent Social Trends as a primary example of how trends could be used to manage uncertainty. The chapter also documents how trends served these ends in the burgeoning forecasting professions, including weather, economics, and fashion.

Teaching a unit on the computer to academically talented elementary school children

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-219
Author(s):  
Lister W. Horn ◽  
Gary M. Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Academically Talented ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The last half of the twentieth century is likely to be known as the age of the computer revolution. The computer has become an integral part of many areas of life and is likely to assume greater importance in the future. This tool, like any other, must be understood and its use mastered to provide the greatest possible benefits. The present generation of elementary school children will be intimately involved with the computer as a tool and with the social implications of its use. This unit was designed to provide insights into the nature of the computer and the type of thinking that must be practiced to utilize the machine. As the computer becomes more and more important in our society. it will be increasingly necessary to provide all students with a background in this area.

scholarly journals Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books’ visualities

2019 ◽  
pp. 147035721987756
Author(s):  
Leah Henrickson
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S

This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of ‘inventory books’, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a proliferation of imagery and nonlinear text layout and argumentation. Inventory books all use text and imagery in unique ways, appearing to include visual cultural references with connotative value that would have appealed to readers’ understandings of self and society. Drawing from scholarship from medieval, visual and literary studies, this article argues that inventory books’ visualities represented and affirmed the countercultural movements of 1960s/70s America. They did so by accentuating each individual reader’s power for meaning-making and by (figuratively and literally) turning conventional reader expectations upside-down. Not only do inventory books reflect their contexts of production, but they also serve to establish and perpetuate contemporary readers’ senses of connection with countercultural identities.

From need to choice, welfarism to advanced liberalism? Problematics of social housing allocation

Legal Studies ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Cowan ◽  
Alex Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Housing Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Driven System ◽  
Housing Allocation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Recurrent Theme

Drawing on studies in governmentality, this paper considers the ways in which the selection and allocation of households for social housing have been conceptualised and treated as problematic. The paper urgues that the notion of ‘need’ emerged relatively slowly over the course of the twentieth century as the organising criterion of social housing. Yet ‘need’ became established as a powerful tool used to place those seeking social housing in hierarchies, and around which considerable expertise developed. While the principle of allocation on the basis of need has come to occupy a hegemonic position, it has operated it continual tension with competing criteria based on notions of suitability. As a consequence, this paper identifies risk management as a recurrent theme of housing management practices. By the 1960s need-based allocation was proving problematic in terms of who was being prioritised; it was also unuble to resist the challenge ofdeviant behaviour by tenunts and the apparent unpopularity of the social rented sector. We argue that the tramition to advanced liberalism prefaced a shift to new forms of letting accommodation bused on household choice, which have been portrayed as addressing core problems with the bureaucratically-driven system. We conclude by reflecting on the tensions inherent in seeking to foster choice, while continuing to adhere to the notion of need.

Thinking through feeling: critical theory and the affective turn

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Mussell
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Materialisms

Chapter 1 sets out the theoretical terrain on which the wider project is based. It begins by revisiting some of the founding tenets of critical theory in the context of the establishment of the Institute for Social Research in the early twentieth century. The chapter then discusses contemporary theories of affect that have emerged in the past couple of decades as part of the so-called ‘new materialisms’. Taking on board some of the key findings of this recent work on affect, the author also highlights the potential political deficiencies that accompany such accounts, particularly within a growing ‘post-critical’ context. The chapter closes with suggestions as to how early critical theory – read through an affective lens – might provide the social and political grounding that affect theory often lacks, while at the same time noting how theories of affect are invaluable in shedding light on the efficacy of the pre- or extra-rational, so often sacrificed on the altar of political philosophy.

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