Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.

Main entry:

Mellor, Leo, 1977-

Title & Author:

Reading the ruins : modernism, bombsites and British culture / Leo Mellor.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Description:

ix, 245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Imagining destruction -- 2. A metropolis aflame -- 3. Surrealism and the bombsites -- 4. The haunted city -- 5. The new London jungle -- Coda.

Summary:

"From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form, in the shapes of broken poetics. But from the outbreak of the Second World War what had been an aesthetic mode began to resemble a proleptic template. During that conflict many modernist writers - such as Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, David Jones, J.F. Hendry, Elizabeth Bowen, T.S. Eliot and Rose Macaulay - engaged with devastated cityscapes and the altered lives of a nation at war. To understand the potency of the bombsites, both in the Second World War and after, Reading the Ruins brings together poetry, novels and short stories, as well as film and visual art"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Cover image

ISBN:

9781107009295 (hardback)
1107009294 (hardback)

Subject:

English literature 20th century History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain Literature and the war.
Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Grande-Bretagne Littérature et guerre.
Modernisme (Littérature) Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Aspect social Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization.
English literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Social aspects.
War and literature.
Englisch
Literatur
Moderne
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Luftangriff
Engelsk litteratur historia 1900-talet.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945 och litteraturen Storbritannien.
Modernism (litteratur) Storbritannien.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945 sociala aspekter historia Storbritannien.
Great Britain Civilization 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 20e siècle.
Great Britain.
Storbritannien kultur- och samhällsliv historia 1900-talet.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280729
Call No.: BIB 217738
Status: Available

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