Personal modernisms : anarchist networks and the later avant-gardes /

Gifford, James, 1974-

Personal modernisms : anarchist networks and the later avant-gardes / James Gifford. - First electronic edition.ition, 2014. - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (317 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Late Modernism inside the whale -- Narrative itinerary -- Authority's apocalypse -- Rereading and recasting.

Recovers the significance of the "lost generation"f of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. [The author] 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.



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Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.--Great Britain
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.--Canada
Anarchism in literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)


Electronic Books.

PR478 / .P477 2014