War Trauma And English Modernism

Author : C. Krockel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307752
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Trauma and English Modernism written by C. Krockel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.

Author : Austin Riede
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940771656
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Shell Shock written by Austin Riede and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Crosthwaite
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230594727
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II written by P. Crosthwaite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fiction and the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s.

Author : Trudi Tate
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847602401
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, History and the First World War written by Trudi Tate and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon medical journals, newspapers, propaganda, military histories, and other writings of the day, 'Modernism, History and the First World War' reads such writers as Woolf, HD, Ford, Faulkner, Kipling, and Lawrence alongside fiction and memoirs of soldiers and nurses who served in the war. This ground breaking blend of cultural history and close readings shows how modernism after 1914 emerges as a strange but important form of war writing, and was profoundly engaged with its own troubled history.

Author : Ariela Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135383790
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Men, and Modernism written by Ariela Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.

Author : Marina MacKay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590090
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, War, and Violence written by Marina MacKay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary achievements in their contexts of historical violence, while surveying the ways in which the relationships between modernism and conflict have been understood by readers and critics over the past fifty years. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of the late 19th century to the world wars and the civil wars in between, and concluding with the institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War, and Violence provides a starting point for readers who are new to these topics and offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field for a more advanced audience.

Author : Charles Andrews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350362042
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology written by Charles Andrews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology – works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuelled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today. While none of the four novelists in this study were committed Christians during the 1920s, Andrews explores how their fiction written in the wake of the First World War operates theologically when it challenges English civil religion – the rituals of the nation that elevate the state to a form of divinity. Bringing these novels into a dialogue with recent political theologies by theorists and theologians including Giorgio Agamben, William Cavanaugh, Simon Critchley, Michel Foucault, Stanley Hauerwas and Jürgen Moltmann, this book shows the myriad ways that we can learn from the authors' theopolitical imaginations. Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions.

Author : Nanette Norris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478049
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great War Modernism written by Nanette Norris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with the Great War. In studying the years of the Great War, we find ourselves once more studying ‘the giants,’ about whom there is so much more to say, as well as adding hitherto marginalized writers – and a few visual artists – to the canon. The contention here is that these war years were seminal to the development of a distinguishable literary practice which is called ‘modernism,’ but perhaps could be further delineated as ‘Great War modernism,’ a practice whose aesthetic merits can be addressed through formal analysis. This collection of essays offers new insight into canonical British/American/European modernism of the Great War period using the critical tools of contemporary, expansionist modernist studies. By focusing on war, and on the experience of the soldier and of those dealing with issues of war and survival, these studies link the unique forms of expression found in modernism with the fragmented, violent, and traumatic experience of the time.

Author : Eve Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198869169
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination written by Eve Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels ofthis period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish affairs provided a marginal but pervasive point of reference for a wide range of canonical authors in England, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and EvelynWaugh, and also for many lesser-known figures such as Ethel Mannin, George Thomson, and T.H. White.The book surveys these and other incidental writers within the broad framework of literary modernism, an arc seen to run in temporal parallel to Ireland's revolutionary trajectory from rebellion to independence. In this context, it addresses two distinct aspects of the Irish-English relationship asit features in the literature of the time: first, the uneasy recognition of a fundamental similarity between the two countries in terms of their potential for violent revolutionary instability, and second, the proleptic engagement of Irish events to prefigure, imaginatively, the potential course ofEngland's evolution from the Armistice to the Second World War. Tracing these effects, this book offers a topical renegotiation of the connections between Irish and English literary culture, nationalism, and political ideology, together with a new perspective on the Irish sources engaged by Englishliterary modernism.

Author : Sam Wiseman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954905
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating the Gothic in British Modernity written by Sam Wiseman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers how British literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic and supernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whether metropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-cultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literary representation.