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LAUGHTER OUT OF DEAD BELLIES
Even before America had entered World War One, death had become a romantic subject for the new generation of American writers. The notion spread that it was the inevitable fate of men in the trenches, and writers then in college … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Andre Breton, Arthur Stringer, Erich Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiona Maddocks, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka The Penal Colony, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, John Drinkwater, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, Michael Lowy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rupert Brooke, Walter Benjamin
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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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