Ford Madox Ford France And Provence

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351346559

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Revival: Provence from Minstrels to the Machine (1938) by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

"Provence" may perhaps be described as the crystallisation of the main idea running through the Great Trade Route, which we published a year ago. Of that book Mr A.G. McDonnell wrote in the Observer: "It is an Indictment, a Philipic....I know of no books to compare with this since Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man" But if "The Great Trade Route" was the destructive onslaught on dubious aspects of contemporary civilisation, "Provence" is the celebration of what might have been and what, according to Mr. Ford, may still yet be - contrasted with what is. For in that triangle of sun-baked , wind-swept, austere yet generous land, bounded as to its base by the Mediterranean and as to its sides, by the Rhone and the Alps, Mr Ford sees all the pride of past European splendour, the small healthy core of Europe's ailing present, the only promise for her future. How and why he sees all this his book alone can reveal, with its history, its moralisings, its descriptions vitalised and clarified by art.

Author : Dominique Lemarchal,Claire Davison-Pégon
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200462

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Ford Madox Ford, France and Provence by Dominique Lemarchal,Claire Davison-Pégon Pdf

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’; and Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’. After the war Ford moved to France, beginning Parade’s End on the Riviera, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. From the late 1920s he spent more time in his beloved Provence, where he took a house with the painter Janice Biala. The present volume, combining contributions from eighteen British, French and American experts on Ford, and Modernism, has two connected sections. The first, on Ford’s engagement with France and French culture, is introduced by an essay by Ford himself, written in French, about France, and republished and also translated here for the first time; and includes an essay on literary Paris of the 1920s by the leading biographer Hermione Lee. The second, on Ford and Provence, is introduced in an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, and includes a selection of previously unpublished letters from Janice Biala about her life with Ford in Provence. The volume also contains 16 pages of illustrations, including previously unseen photographs of Ford and Biala, and reproductions of Biala’s paintings and drawings of Provence.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Ford. Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1447461592

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Provence - from Minstrels to the MacHine by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1935 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German emigre father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the "Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great" - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave debuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford's most famous work was his Parade's End tetralogy, which he completed in the 1920's and have now been adapted into a BBC television drama. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography: Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65."

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015026077829

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A Mirror to France by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Author : Sara Haslam,Laura Colombino,Seamus O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317043386

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The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford by Sara Haslam,Laura Colombino,Seamus O'Malley Pdf

Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford’s fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.

Author : Nanette Oê1/4brien,Independent Scholar Nanette Oʼbrien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198871729

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Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf by Nanette Oê1/4brien,Independent Scholar Nanette Oʼbrien Pdf

Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.

Author : Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-21
Category : Provence (France)
ISBN : 0880013168

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PROVENCE ED 2E PB by Ford Pdf

Author : Ashley Chantler,Rob Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317181781

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An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford by Ashley Chantler,Rob Hawkes Pdf

For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the context of significant literary, artistic and historical events and movements. Individual essays consider Ford's theory of literary Impressionism and the impact of the First World War; illuminate The Good Soldier and Parade's End; engage with topics such as the city, gender, national identity and politics; discuss Ford as an autobiographer, poet, propagandist, sociologist, Edwardian and modernist; and show his importance as founding editor of the groundbreaking English Review and transatlantic review. The volume encourages detailed close reading of Ford's writing and illustrates the importance of engaging with secondary sources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004328372

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Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis: Psycho-geography, Flânerie and the Cultures of Paris by Anonim Pdf

Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis explores and celebrates Ford’s internationalism, underlining his lifelong commitment to an international, transmedial approach to the arts. It brings to life his commitment to cosmopolitanism living, and thinking, and his vibrant intellectual networks spiralling around Paris.

Author : Birgit Van Puymbroeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000088373

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Modernist Literature and European Identity by Birgit Van Puymbroeck Pdf

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of modernist texts. Authors such as Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Aimé Césaire, and Nancy Cunard each developed their own notion of Europe. They engaged in transnational networks and experimented with new forms of writing, supporting or challenging a European ideal. Building on insights gained from global modernism and network theory, this book suggests that rather than defining Europe through a set of core principles, we may also regard it as an open or weak construct, a crossroads where different authors and views converged and collided.

Author : Laura Colombino,Max Saunders
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209595

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The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford by Laura Colombino,Max Saunders Pdf

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’, Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, and which has been adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed BBC/HBO television series. This volume focuses on Ford’s work from the Edwardian decade and a half before the First World War. It contains Michael Schmidt’s Ford Madox Ford Lecture, and fourteen other essays by British, American, French and German experts, both leading authorities and younger scholars. Chapters on Ford’s fiction, poetry, criticism of literature and painting, writing about England, and dealings on the Edwardian literary scene as editor and with publishers, bring out his versatility and ingenuity throughout his first major creative phase.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208413

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Ford Madox Ford and America by Anonim Pdf

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’, Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, and which has been adapted by Tom Stoppard for the BBC and HBO. Ford’s America, like the other places he wrote about extensively such as England or France, is a place of the imagination as much as the real place in which he lived and travelled. This volume is the first extended treatment of Ford’s lifelong contacts with American literature and culture. It combines contributions from British and American experts on Ford and Modernism. It has five closely inter-connected sections which display, between them, the range of Ford’s creative relationships with American writers and American territory. The first explores the transatlantic dimension of Ford’s modernism, from his involvement with Americans like James and Pound in Britain before the war, through the Paris days among the Americans in the transatlantic review circle such as Hemingway and Stein, to his time in America in the 20s and 30s, and the American care for his reputation after his death. The second section focuses on New York, and the publishing world portrayed in Ford’s only novel set mainly in the US, When the Wicked Man. A third section, discussing culture, politics, and journalism in his writing of the 1930s, is followed by two examples of his commentary on contemporary American culture, both published here for the first time. The final section juxtaposes two examples of the many American writers who have paid tribute to Ford: an essay tracking Robert Lowell’s regular recollections of his encounters with him; and Mary Gordon’s celebration of his life with the Polish-American painter Janice Biala. The volume also contains fourteen illustrations, including artwork by Biala and photographs of Ford.

Author : R. Hawkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137283436

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Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns by R. Hawkes Pdf

Ford Madox Ford is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book poses questions about the nature of narrative and the distinction between modernism and modernity.

Author : Nanette OʼBrien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198871736

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Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf by Nanette OʼBrien Pdf

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this book illuminates modernist uses of the terms 'civilization' and 'barbarism', showing how these concepts are shaped by the rules of preparing and eating food in literature and in public. Nanette OʼBrien introduces the concept of 'culinary Impressionism' as an extension and repositioning of current scholarly thinking about Ford's literary Impressionism and his synesthetic writing about cookery and small farming. She also presents a new reading of Stein's crafting of her modernist authority as interlinked with her cooks, and shows Stein's and Toklas's jointly authored unpublished cookbook draft as evidence of their direct authorial collaboration and of Stein adapting domestic culinary techniques into her other writing. OʼBrien goes on to present new archival research demonstrating that Virginia Woolf's representation of the financial and culinary difference between men's and women's dining in colleges at the University of Cambridge is justified and the material inequality was in fact worse than previously understood. This disparity in institutional food intensifies Woolf's later reimagining of the term 'civilization'. While drawing on themes of modernism and life-writing, the everyday, domestic life and gender, the book argues that food is a vehicle for positive modernist re-conceptions of civilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004299177

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Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier by Anonim Pdf

This volume marks the centenary of Ford Madox Ford’s masterpiece The Good Soldier. It includes groundbreaking work on the novel’s narrative technique, chronology, and genre; pioneering work on bodies and minds; eugenics; poison; and surveillance; and innovative comparative studies.