W. H. Auden's documentary vision

In the destabilized England and America of the 1930s, many artists turned to the documentary method for representing and interpreting social reality. But W. H. Auden came to question this approach in Letters from Iceland, Spain, and Journey to a War. All three works explore the powers and limits of perception. By offering competing and contradictory ways of seeing, they reveal a visual instability at the center of Auden's career--which prefigures the uneasy mixture of the external world and allegorized landscapes in the long poems. Crucial to Auden's experiments are his photographs in the travel books.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Bryant, Marsha Carol

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Cary

• Fine Arts
• Literature, English

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Bryant, Marsha Carol

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI8924778
(UMI)AAI8924778

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18986