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Book III
British literary modernism
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Contemporary Society
Crazy Jane Talks
Danse Macabre
Difficult Morning
documentary poetics
Dos Passos
Edward Upward
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feminist literary criticism
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IRA Man
La Belle
Large Scale Historical Events
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Left Book Club
modernist influence in 1930s literature
Moscow Congress
Ode Iv
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political theatre innovation
Praise Famous Men
Queen's Hall
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socialist realism analysis
South Riding
Stephen Spender
suburban cultural studies
Thirties Writers
Town Halls
Vice Versa
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Wigan Pier
Winding Stair
Winifred Holtby
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138400528
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change.The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the period in the light of recent theoretical developments, through essays on the ambivalent assimilation of Modernist influences, among proletarian and canonical novelists including James Barke and George Orwell, and among poets including Auden, MacNeice, Swingler and Bunting, and in the work of feminist writers Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. In this substantial remapping, the complexity and scope of literary-critical debate at the time is discussed in relation to theatrical innovation, audience attitudes to the mass medium of modernity - cinema - the poetics of suburbia, consumerism and national ideology, as well as the discursive strategies of British and American documentarism.
Keith Williams is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee, UK.
