Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the…
Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the…
Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the…
British modernism and chinoiserie
British modernism and chinoiserie
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British Modernism.
W.B. Yeats: theater and Shakespearean elitism -- Ezra Pound: theater and anti-Semitism -- D.H. Lawrence: theater and the working class -- James Joyce: theater and sexaul/gender non-conformity -- T.S. Eliot: theater and popularity -- Virginia Woolf: theater and gender equality. …
"Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material and fresh readings of neglec…
"Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material and fresh readings of neglec…
