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Reading the Ruins - Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Reading the Ruins - Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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