Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals. Culturally, Lewis played the dual role of innovator and iconoclast. Lewis’s letters show the wide range of his interests as well as his great verbal energy and unrelenting intellect. Lewis knew most of the significant artists and writers of his time and some of them – Augustus John, Pound, Eliot and Joyce were his...

Band 2 des Kempowski-Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Roman Schöne Aussicht (1981). Geschildert wird die deutsche Zwischenkriegszeit. Aus Sicht der Familie Kempowski wird »das weite Feld des Alltäglichen« (Hans Jörg Hennecke) zwischen sozialer Kälte und politisch aufgeheizter Atmosphäre bestellt. Neben der politischen Entwicklung interessieren den Autor die Darstellung unterschiedlicher sozialer Milieus und Charaktere. Die vielfach geschwächten ›Familienbande‹ werden mit kühl taxierendem Blick erfasst und spiegeln die innere Distanz des Bürgertums zu den großen...

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and...