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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798082203321
• Autore: Gifford James <1974->
• 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)
• 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.