Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After

ISBN-13: 9781138400528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Keith Williams

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Age of Anxiety and Influence; or Tradition and the Thirties Talents 3. Illusion and Reality: the Spectre of Socialist Realism in Thirties Literature 4. 'Alien Experiences': Virginia Woolf, Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain in the Thirties 5. Remembering Bryden's Bill: Modernism from Eliot to Auden 6. Believing in the Thirties 7. 'A Marvellous Drama out of Life': Yeats, Pound, Bunting and Villon at Rapallo 8. Thirties Poetry and the Landscape of Suburbia 9. Politics and Beauty: the Poetry of Randall Swingler 10. 'Irritating Tricks': Aesthetic Expermentation and Political Theatre 11. Modernism and the People: the View from the Cinema Stalls 12. Post/Modern Documentary: Orwell, Agee and the New Reportage 13. Blood and Marmalade: Negotiations between the State and Domestic in George Orwell's Early Novels Works Cited Index

O autorze

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