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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sylvia Townsend Warner"”.
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'I wasn't educated, I was very lucky': Sylvia Townsend Warner and Education
The fictional works of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) are primarily situated within a tradition of Marxist and feminist politics, or lesbian modernism. This thesis proposes that several of her works written and published mostly in the interwar years can be read through an alternative lens of …
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Gender, genre and politics in the literary work of Sylvia Townsend Warner
… in which the prolific twentieth-century writer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, engaged with politics. A committed communist from the 1930s onwards, Warner was also a feminist writer and the works discussed here examine the interface between the politics of gender and the politics of the left. The sexual …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
… of female non-combatant identity authored by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. between 1916 and 1955, a historical moment consonant with World War I, the interwar era, World War II, and its aftermath. Their depictions of the material reality of war and its devastating impact on …
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Say That We Saw Spain Die: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War
… Herbst, Frances Davis, Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner. This paper will argue that these women writers, although they came to Spain with different purposes — because they identified with Republican ideology, or to warn their home countries of the dangers of Red Spain, or to spur …
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Choran community: The aesthetics of encounter in literary and photographic modernism
… politics of modernist writers Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, and photographers Gertrude Kasebier, James Van Der Zee, and Walker Evans.</p><p>The artists I discuss share a common humanist concern for creating moments of wholeness in their work. …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… Martineau, Fanny Kemble, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Townsend Warner manipulate their authors' celebrity status and relish the presence of their transatlantic public, shrewdly engaging hybrid, genre-specific narrative strategies aimed at British and/or American audiences, both literary and …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… readings of novels by Rebecca West, Anita Loos, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winnifred Watson, Barbara Pym and Elaine Dundy and argues that humor is key to their negotiation with their audience, allowing these novelists to challenge normative conventions while still maintaining their popular appeal, …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
… The diaries of Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Joe Orton and the critical work of Jennifer Sinor, Elizabeth Podnieks, and Judy Simons are used to identify how reading other writers’ diaries helped to shape this fictional one. It considers the layering process used in …