The extinct scene : late modernism and everyday life

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The extinct scene : late modernism and everyday life

Title remainder

late modernism and everyday life

Statement of responsibility

Thomas S. Davis

Creator

• Davis, Thomas S., (Thomas Saverance)

Author

• Davis, Thomas S., (Thomas Saverance)

Subject

• Electronic books
• England
• English literature
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literary criticism
• Literary criticism
• Literature and society
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century
• Modernism (Literature)
• Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
• 1900-1999
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Literary criticism
• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

In 1935, the English novelist Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and, through a more nuanced understanding of the period, conducts original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the putry of H.D.; the sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering this varied group of writers, artists, and cultural leaders, Davis recasts late modernism as an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life, the movement could better project the large-scale undoing of history

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• Modernist latitudes

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N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Modernist Latitudes