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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"British modernism"”.
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
The popular British theatre of the late nineteenth century has often been regarded as both aesthetically and politically bankrupt: bombastic and spectacular, it offered a vision of sensational theatricality lacking both the formal innovation and the intellectual charge of the later avant-garde …
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Race and the Modernist Imagination: The Politics of Form, 1900--1940
… racial ambiguities of abstract modernist art. If British modernism performs a series of diverse cultural renovations, my project demonstrates that the politics and poetics of race underpin the movement's contradictory artistic commitments and affiliations."
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… to narrative fragmentation, I claim that reading modernism in terms of responsibility yields an uncommon yet critical understanding of its practitioners as deeply invested in ethical problems related to representation. I argue that in the context of British modernism, particularly in the decade …
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Marlow Moss (1889-1958)
… issues; a European art historical perspective; a British art historical perspective; and a critical analysis of Moss's oeuvre), function as thematic lenses through which to view Moss. It could seem that Moss's historical position, a British artist working in Europe and a European-influenced artist …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
When asked to consider bodies and sexuality in literature, people often imagine scenes from D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). In marked contrast to her voiceless fictional predecessor Anne Elliot whose “word had no weight” in Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), the female protagonist in …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
Analyzes how 20th Century British writers and Hollywood filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… object that underscored the visual aesthetics of modernism as well as the work of Woolf and Lewis.
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The “Presence of Movement” in the Works of Elizabeth Bowen
… to the reassessment of Bowen’s work within modernism and modernist spatiality. Bowen’s literary relationship with space, this thesis offers, is born out of a conscious engagement with movement, with all the scientific, technological, political, and social meanings it entailed. It argues that …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
It is tempting to say that intellectual writers in early twentieth-century Britain produced popular journalism for outlets like Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Telegraph simply to make money. However, this dissertation argues that such “side” work in fact played an important role in …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
This dissertation compiles a varied archive of British and Irish “underground literature”; forgoing an encyclopedic documentation of underground spaces for a series of case studies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts, it demonstrates how the unusual and unusually durable topoi of …