Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series – serie
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20 produkter
W. S. Graham
The Poem as Art Object
Inbunden, 2022
1599 kr
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On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his …
Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Crimes and War Crimes
Inbunden, 2023
1385 kr
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Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals …
Mid-Century Romance
Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical Novel
Inbunden, 2024
1222 kr
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Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century history with narratives of …
Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism
Perfectly Disgraceful
Av Sam Ladkin
Inbunden, 2024
1467 kr
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Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School. Fresh accounts of canonical …
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World
Making Space for the Human
Av David Herd
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which …
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel
States of Repair
Inbunden, 2023
1851 kr
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that literature returns to the …
Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature
The Psychographic Turn
Inbunden, 2021
1517 kr
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Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous infiltration of public …
Modernism, Decolonization, and the Visual Book
Av Emily Hyde
Inbunden, 2027
1402 kr
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Writers in the era of decolonization loaded their books with illustrations, allusions to the visual arts, and ekphrases, or descriptions of visual images. They collaborated with artists and intermixed their narratives with elements of the book arts, such as endpapers, frontispieces, and dust …
Reconstructing Modernism
British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State
Av Ashley Maher
Inbunden, 2020
1599 kr
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Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about …
Red Britain
The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1872 kr
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the …
Ian Watt
The Novel and the Wartime Critic
Inbunden, 2018
748 kr
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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history …
A Grain of Faith
Religion in Mid-Century British Literature
Inbunden, 2018
2020 kr
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During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about religion. Graham Greene, Muriel …
British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime
For the Duration
Av Beryl Pong
Inbunden, 2020
1599 kr
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British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the Cold War, Second World wartime involves an …
Wastepaper Modernism
Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print
Inbunden, 2021
1788 kr
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal an increasingly uneasy …
Geopolitical Shakespeare
Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War
Av Erica Sheen
Inbunden, 2024
1287 kr
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an …
Scripting Empire
Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic
Inbunden, 2024
1700 kr
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Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable …
Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the introduction of sound and how …
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing
Av Guy Woodward
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment containing the promise of utopia. …
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World
Making Space for the Human
Av David Herd
Häftad, 2025
336 kr
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Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which …
British Writers in Occupied Germany, 1945–55
Changing Hearts and Minds
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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British Writers in Occupied Germany offers an original account of the contribution of British mid-century writers and their works to the moral, political, and intellectual re-orientation of Germany after World War II (1945^–^55), as well as an examination of the literature that emerged from the …
