TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mellor,Leo
TI  - Reading the ruins: modernism, bombsites and British culture 
SN  - 9781107009295
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Englisch
N1  - '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; Erscheint : September 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index
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