LEADER 03465nam 2200505 450 001 9910159015503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78694-522-3 010 $a1-942954-01-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000908896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4779095 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781942954019 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992602 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4779095 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11326022 035 $a(OCoLC)968738162 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000908896 100 $a20170119h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe reimagining of place in english modernism /$fSam Wiseman 210 1$aClemson, South Carolina :$cClemson University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 225 1 $aLiverpool scholarship online 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-9908958-8-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s ? particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf ? often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity ? the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts by these four authors, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan. This analysis is located within the context of ongoing critical debates regarding the relationship of English modernism with place, cosmopolitanism, and rural tradition; Wiseman augments this discourse by highlighting stylistic and thematic connections between the authors in question, and argues that these links collectively illustrate a distinctive, place-oriented strand of interwar modernism. Ecocritical and phenomenological perspectives are deployed to reveal similarities in their sense of human interrelationship with place, and a shared interest in particular themes and imagery; these include archaeological excavation, aerial perspectives upon place, and animism. Such concerns stem from specific technological and socio-cultural developments of the era. The differing engagements of these four authors with such changes collectively indicate a distinctive set of literary strategies, which aim to reconcile the tensions and contradictions inherent in their relationships with place. 410 0$aLiverpool scholarship online. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.900912 700 $aWiseman$b Sam$0956207 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159015503321 996 $aThe reimagining of place in english modernism$92164940 997 $aUNINA