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Fractured Landscape of Modernity
J. Wilkes
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Description for Fractured Landscape of Modernity
Paperback. 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. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; AJ; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349449491
SKU
V9781349449491
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Ref
99-15
About J. Wilkes
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 Weather A System (2009) and the chapbook Reviews (2009). He has taught at Birkbeck College and the University of East Anglia.
Reviews for Fractured Landscape of Modernity
'Wilkes' book is timely. It sits alongside a growing body of work which, Lorimer and Parr note, demonstrates 'a preparedness to experiment with different ways of telling' (2014, page 544). In A Fractured Landscape of Modernity experimentation has enabled Wilkes to approach the 'telling' of Purbeck's multiples histories and imageries, through the use of ' narrative as a creative method ... Read more