Islands And The Modernists
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Islands And The Modernists
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Author : Jill Franks
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-07-11
Islands And The Modernists written by Jill Franks and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines five modernists in different disciplines--biology, painting, drama, fiction, and anthropology--whose work on islands made them famous. Charles Darwin challenged every presumption of popular science with his theory of evolution by natural selection, derived from his study of the Galapagos Islands. Paul Gauguin found on Tahiti inspiration enough to break through the inhibiting traditions of the Parisian art world. John Millington Synge's experience on the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland gave birth to a new style of drama that defied classic divisions between tragedy and comedy. D.H. Lawrence's life-long search for a utopian community culminated in his famous short story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," that poignantly portrays the tension between idealism and realism, solitude and human intimacy. Finally, Margaret Mead began her career in anthropology by studying the remote South Sea Islands and through her work acquired the sobriquet "Mother of the World." The text explores the extent to which islands inspired these radical thinkers to perform innovative work. Each used islands differently, but similar phenomena affected their choice of place and the outcome of their projects. Their examples illuminate the relationship of modernism to alienation and insularity.
A Shrinking Island
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Author : Joshua Esty
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
A Shrinking Island written by Joshua Esty and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.
Conservative Modernists
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Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-29
Conservative Modernists written by Christos Hadjiyiannis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with History categories.
Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900-1920.
A Shrinking Island
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Author : Joshua Esty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Shrinking Island written by Joshua Esty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.
Modernism And Colonialism
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Author : Richard Begam
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-15
Modernism And Colonialism written by Richard Begam and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism.
Legacy
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Author : Marcia Morse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Legacy written by Marcia Morse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
A History Of Irish Modernism
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Author : Gregory Castle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-24
A History Of Irish Modernism written by Gregory Castle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
Reluctant Modernists
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Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2002
Reluctant Modernists written by Peter Edgerly Firchow and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Collections categories.
The essays collected here deal with modernist writers who, on the whole, felt 'reluctant' about their modernist status because they believed that it was just as important to look backward as it was to look forward. Indeed, for most of them looking backward was more important because it was only through the past that one could understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why in Huxley's Brave New World it is the rejection of the past in the future - and by implication in the present - that makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it. Peter Firchow, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of several books on modern and modernist literary subjects, including books on Huxley, Conrad, and Auden. The publication of some of his hitherto uncollected essays in this volume is intended to honor
Robert Louis Stevenson And The Appearance Of Modernism
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Author : A. Sandison
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1996-05-21
Robert Louis Stevenson And The Appearance Of Modernism written by A. Sandison and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite attracting the admiration of Modernists like Nabokov and Borges, Stevenson remains for many an apologist for the lost world of the romance. This is not only to misread and simplify his fiction, it is greatly to undervalue his lively, forward-looking literary essays. Strenously resisting the authority of the literary 'fathers' (though haunted by the complexities of paternity), Stevenson reveals strong affinities with emergent Modernism. It is from this perspective that Alan Sandison's latest book (the first to appear for nearly thirty years) conducts a lively and readable re-examination of this often underrated writer.
World Views
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Author : Jon Hegglund
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-03-12
World Views written by Jon Hegglund and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
World Views examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.