Author : James Gifford
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772120111
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Book Synopsis Personal Modernisms by : James Gifford
Download or read book Personal Modernisms written by James Gifford and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.