Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0582294495 ISBN 13 : 9780582294493

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1997

Synopsis

This study examines the major literary figures and works of the 1930's. It looks at the themes, philosophies and trends in the writings of this era.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change.

The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the period in the light of recent theoretical developments, through essays on the ambivalent assimilation of Modernist influences, among proletarian and canonical novelists including James Barke and George Orwell, and among poets including Auden, MacNeice, Swingler and Bunting, and in the work of feminist writers Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. In this substantial remapping, the complexity and scope of literary-critical debate at the time is discussed in relation to theatrical innovation, audience attitudes to the mass medium of modernity - cinema - the poetics of suburbia, consumerism and national ideology, as well as the discursive strategies of British and American documentarism.

Biographie de l'auteur

Keith Williams is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee, UK.

Steven Matthews is Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582294495
• ISBN 13: 9780582294493
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Williams Keith, Matthews Steven
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