Name: Great War Modernists. D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington
SKU: 64802648
Price: 824.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Lee M. Jenkins
ISBN: 9781350285378

portada Great War Modernists. D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington

Great War Modernists. D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Author

Lee M. Jenkins

Collection

Historicizing Modernism

Year

2026

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9781350285378

Great War Modernists. D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington

Lee M. Jenkins (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Paperback

New Book Imported to South Africa

Delivery: 06 Oct - 14 Oct

R 824

R 824

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Great War Modernists. D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington"

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as ‘another Bloomsbury set’, the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, ‘lived in squares’ and ‘loved in triangles’, in Dorothy Parker’s famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics: both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as ‘life writing’. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde: Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Cournos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modernism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modernist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Cournos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modernist life writing.