Personal Modernisms : Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes
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| Title: | Personal Modernisms : Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes |
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| Description: | Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the'lost generation'of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He 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, and encourages readers to re-engage the lost generation using this new critical lens. Scholars and students of literary modernism, twentieth-century Canadian literature, and anarchism will find a productive vision of this neglected period within Personal Modernisms. |
| Authors: | James Gifford |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Canada--History and criticism, Anarchism in literature, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain--History and criticism, English literature--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States--History and criticism, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the'lost generation'of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He 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, and encourages readers to re-engage the lost generation using this new critical lens. Scholars and students of literary modernism, twentieth-century Canadian literature, and anarchism will find a productive vision of this neglected period within Personal Modernisms. |
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| ISBN: | 9781772120011 9781772120110 9781772120097 9781772120103 |
