LEADER 03708nam 22005292 450 001 9910815523203321 005 20170818131702.0 010 $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 $a20170307d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe reimagining of place in English modernism /$fSam Wiseman$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (166 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool scholarship online 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 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 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a820.9384 700 $aWiseman$b Sam$01631947 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815523203321 996 $aThe reimagining of place in English modernism$93970807 997 $aUNINA