Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music, Literature and Politics in Interwar Britain

ISBN-13: 9781108481496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 186 str.

Sarah Collins

Opis

Examines the role of musical figures within 'late modernism', presenting a new understanding of the politics and aesthetics of lateness.

Recenzje

'The concepts of lateness and modernism in early twentieth-century culture have both received voluminous critical attention in recent years. But here is an invigorating and sophisticated book which makes a highly distinctive and indeed provocative contribution. Neglected aspects of inter-war British musical and literary modernism receive long overdue scrutiny through virtuoso readings of the work of Philip Heseltine, Cecil Gray and Kaikhosru Sorabji. In short, essential, and thoroughly enjoyable reading.' Stephen Downes, Royal Holloway, University of London

Spis treści

1. The afterlife of a 'Beaten Ghost'; 2. Sketch of a milieu: impasse and lateness; 3. Impersonality and vividness; 'Le Gai Savaire', Philip Heseltine and D. H. Lawrence; 4. Modernism, democracy and the politics of lateness: Kaikhosru Sorabji and the new age; 5. Cycles, rotation and the image: Cecil Gray's music history and H. D.'s Imagism