| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
|
text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Imagining destruction; Beautiful bomb-laden Zeppelins; The interwar imagination; Unrest in the wake of bombs; Extrapolation of weapons; Lessons of Spain; Depicting casualties; 1939 and all that; Episodic losses of perspective; Targets and narrative; A bomb casualty or war avenger?; Bone as bomb victim; Chapter 2 A metropolis aflame; William Sansom and disorientation; Time was away; Allegory and physicality; Bodies, various; Louis MacNeice and complicity; Trolls in the smoke. |
|
Aesthetics of destructionHenry Green: fire and the limits of description; Framing fire; Dreading forwards; Telling stories; Elegiac possibilities; Elegies from fire; Encounters in the flames; Ash and paper; Ritual and redemption?; Fire and paper; Chapter 3 Surrealism and the bombsites; Pre-war surrealism in Britain; The organicist turn; Wartime is 'surreal'; Turning fragments into structures: David Gascoyne and J.F. Hendry; Zero hour and no man's land; Back to the bombsites; Apocalyptics; J.F. Hendry; From Guernica to London; The limits of a dialectic. |
|
Organic sensations: Graham Sutherland and Lynette RobertsSwansea raid; Sensations from the body and the air; War pictures; A war artist; Captions and anger: Lee Miller and Humphrey Jennings; Grim glory; Anger and the human form; Jennings in the 1930s; London Can Take it; Decodable patriotism; Ballardian legacies; Chapter 4 The haunted city; Graham Greene and the idea of haunting; Ruins and amnesia; Ghosting treason: damaged buildings; David Jones: making your own archaeology; Jones and the ghosts of wars; Traces, textures and expansiveness; Ghosts in the footnotes; Acts of recovery. |
|
Bowen's ghostsThe territory of the city; Shallow, cratered, extinct; Buried memories; Chapter 5 The new London jungle; Precursors and portents; Mundanity and willowherb; Rose Macaulay's history of fears; London as a green world; Greenery; Priests in the foliage; Fireweed rampant; What the plants hide; War games; Shapes of the past; Literary salvage; The modernist fragment displayed; Postwar pleasures and fears; Triffids in the unofficial countryside; The environmental turn, postmodernity, and back to the bombsite; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This vivid reading of wartime culture investigates the significance of London's bombsites by bringing together famous and forgotten authors. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
|
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
|
|
Great Britain. |
|
Civilization. |
|
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
|
|
Modernism (Literature) |
|
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.
|
|
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
|
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mellor, Leo. Reading the Ruins : Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107009295 |
| ISBN |
9781139137959 |
|
1139137956 |
|
1283316781 |
|
9781283316781 |
|
9781139145282 (electronic book) |
|
1139145282 (electronic book) |
|
9780511920813 (electronic book) |
|
0511920814 (electronic book) |
|
9781107009295 |
|
1107009294 |
|
9781139141963 |
| Standard No. |
9786613316783 |
|
