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Drawing substantially on the thoughts and words of Catholic writers and cultural commentators, Villis sheds new light on religious identity and political extremism in early twentieth-century Britain. The book constitutes a comprehensive study of the way in which British Catholic communities reacted to fascism both at home and abroad.

This book illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the twentieth century, which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures, such as Alfred Orange, Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain. This group--a self-identifying Nietzschean elite eager to lead the masses--despised parliaments as representing and embodying a ""nation."" Tom Villis examines the literary works, private papers, correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic, anti-modern,...

Drawing substantially on the thoughts and words of Catholic writers and cultural commentators, Villis sheds new light on religious identity and political extremism in early twentieth-century Britain. The book constitutes a comprehensive study of the way in which British Catholic communities reacted to fascism both at home and abroad.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gesprochene und geschriebene Sprache unterscheiden sich nicht allein durch ihren medialen Charakter, also in Schallereignis und Zeichen. Entstand die gesprochene Sprache vorerst auf evolutionar-biologischem Wege, jedoch nicht ohne kulturellen Einfluss (vgl. Bayer 1994:159ff.; Haarmann 2006:27ff.), so ist das geschriebene Wort hingegen eine rein kulturelle und somit bewusst konstruierte Kommunikation, mit dem Ziel der Abbildung und Speicherung zuvor abstrakter...