A Fractured Landscape of Modernity

Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-44949-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkes, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Studland Beach 2. The Hollow Land 3. Seaside Surrealism 4. Purbeck Underground Afterword Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Wilkes is a researcher and writer with interests in modernist art and literature, contemporary landscape writing and poetry. His poetry publications include the collection (2009) and the chapbook (2009). He has taught at Birkbeck College and the University of East Anglia.