Search results for "modernism"
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Genesis de Paul Nash : exploration de l'imaginaire par la gravure dans le livre illustré moderniste
2011
International audience
John Lehmann's New Writing (1936 - 1940) : A New Prose
2009
« La lettre au coeur de l'écriture de Rosamond Lehmann »
2003
International audience
« Emotion and the immorial »
2005
International audience
Un héritage précédé d'aucun testament : Walter Benjamin et la question de l'héritage
2009
Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book
2022
This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…
Graver, sculpter : un geste moderniste. Descriptions ekphrastiques dans les manuels de gravure sur bois des années 1920 et 1930 en Grande Bretagne
2015
International audience
Expiation et filiation dans Death of a Hero de Richard Aldington (1929)
2017
Textes réunis et présentés par Sylvie Crinquand; National audience; Le roman de Richard Aldington reflète le scandale que fut la Première Guerre mondiale en puisant aux sources classiques de l'imaginaire européen et révèle l'ambivalence du mythe de la modernité en suggérant que la crise de la filiation créée par la Grande Guerre est également inhérente au Modernisme.
The Hangman's Game: Karen King-Aribisala's "diary of creation"
2008
The structure of King Aribisala's multi-layered novel "The Hangman's Game" is complex: each narrative thread reverberates onto the other, creating an intricate network of (sometimes distorting) mirrors, suggesting an interconnectedness between past and present, reality and fiction, living and writing. This paper endeavours to explore this complex relationship and to demonstrate how the protean phenomenon of resurgence informs "The Hangman's Game".