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Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474415842

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PROLETARIAN ANSWER TO THE MODERNIST QUESTION.

Author : NICK. HUBBLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474438741

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PROLETARIAN ANSWER TO THE MODERNIST QUESTION. by NICK. HUBBLE Pdf

Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474415835

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Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question by Nick Hubble Pdf

This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

Modernist Work

Author : John Attridge,Helen Rydstrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501344039

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Modernist Work by John Attridge,Helen Rydstrand Pdf

Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its aesthetic, theoretical, historical and political dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy. Modernist Work investigates an important but relatively neglected topic in modernist studies, demonstrating the central relevance of the concept of “work” to a diverse selection of writers and artists and opening up pathways for future research.

The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

Author : Paul Stasi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009223157

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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction by Paul Stasi Pdf

Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns – sympathy, class, social determination – animate the work of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Ralph Ellison. In contrast to the oft-told tale of an aesthetically rich modernism overthrowing realism's social commitments along with its formal structures, Stasi shows how these writers engaged with realism in concrete ways. The domestic novel, naturalist fiction, novels of sentiment, and industrial tales are realist structures that modernist fiction simultaneously preserves and subverts. Putting modernist writers in conversation with the realism that preceded them, The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how modernism's social concerns are inseparable from its formal ones.

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Author : Nick Hubble,Luke Seaber,Elinor Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350079168

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Nick Hubble,Luke Seaber,Elinor Taylor Pdf

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis,Rachel Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840521

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics by Christos Hadjiyiannis,Rachel Potter Pdf

Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.

Working-Class Writing

Author : Ben Clarke,Nick Hubble
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319963105

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Working-Class Writing by Ben Clarke,Nick Hubble Pdf

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.

The Birmingham Group

Author : Robin Harriott
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031143830

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The Birmingham Group by Robin Harriott Pdf

The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity.

Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature

Author : Megan Faragher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192898975

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Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature by Megan Faragher Pdf

Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous infiltration of public opinion research into a bevy of cultural and governmental institutions. As authors witnessed the materialization of the once-opaque realm of public consciousness for the first time, their writings imagined the potentialities of such technologies for the body politic. Polling opened new horizons for mass politics. Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature traces this most crucial period of group psychology's evolution--the mid-century--when psychography, a term originating in Victorian spiritualism, transformed into a scientific praxis. The imbrication of British writers within a growing institutionalized public opinion infrastructure bolstered an aesthetic turn towards collectivity and an interest in the political ramifications of meta-psychological discourse. Examining works by H.G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, Val Gielgud, Olaf Stapledon, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, Celia Fremlin, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Elizabeth Bowen, this book utilizes extensive archival research to trace the embeddedness of writers within public opinion institutions, providing a fresh explanation for the new material turn so often associated with interwar writing.

Locating Classed Subjectivities

Author : Simon Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000582796

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Locating Classed Subjectivities by Simon Lee Pdf

Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized spatial aesthetics as a means to comment on the intricacies of social class. In doing so, the collection delineates aesthetic strategies of representation in British writing, tracing the development of literary forms while considering how authors mobilized innovative spatial metaphors to better express contingent social and economic realities. Ranging in coverage from early-nineteenth-century narratives of disease to contemporary writing on the working-class millennial, Locating Classed Subjectivities offers new perspectives on literary techniques and political intentions, exploring the way class is parsed and critiqued through British writing across three centuries. As such, the project responds to Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams’s claim that literary and cultural production serves as a particularly rich yet unexamined access point by which to comprehend the way space and social class intersect.

Red Britain

Author : Matthew Taunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192549938

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Red Britain by Matthew Taunton Pdf

Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the conceptual, discursive, and formal reverberations of the Bolshevik Revolution in British literature and culture. It provides new insight into canonical writers including Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Dorothy Richardson, H.G Wells, and Raymond Williams, as well bringing to attention a cast of less-studied writers, intellectuals, journalists, and visitors to the Soviet Union. Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The 2010s

Author : Emily Horton,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble,Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350268227

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The 2010s by Emily Horton,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble,Philip Tew Pdf

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading. From the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the 2010s have been a decade of an ongoing crisis which has penetrated every area of everyday life. Internationally, there has been an ongoing shift of global power from the US to China, and events and developments such as the election of Donald Trump as US President, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of the populist right across Europe and very gradually the incipient effects variously of AI. Nationally, there has been a decade of austerity economics punctuated by divisive referendums on Scottish independence and whether Britain should leave or remain in the EU. Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors who have helped define this turbulent decade, including Nicola Barker, Anna Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid, James Kelman, James Robertson, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell, among others, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

The 1950s

Author : Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011533

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The 1950s by Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.

The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000513134

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The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine by Tim Lanzendörfer Pdf

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: • Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does. • History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions. • Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine. The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.