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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460562103321

Autore

Gifford James <1974->

Titolo

Personal modernisms : anarchist networks and the later avant-gardes / / James Gifford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-77212-009-X

1-77212-011-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages)

Disciplina

820.9112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain - History

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States - History

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Canada - History

Anarchism in literature

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Late Modernism inside the whale -- Narrative itinerary -- Authority's apocalypse -- Rereading and recasting.

Sommario/riassunto

Recovers the significance of the "lost generation"f of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. [The author] examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-authoritarian contemporaries such as Alex Comfort, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, J.F. Hendry, Henry Miller, Elizabeth Smart, Dylan Thomas, and Henry Treece forges a missing link between Late Modernist and postmodernist literature. He concludes by applying his recontextualization to four familiar texts by Miller, Durrell, Smart, and Duncan.