The Many Facades Of Edith Sitwell

Author : Allan Pero
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305284X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell written by Allan Pero and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating book that takes us deep into Edith Sitwell's world of artifice, disguise, high camp, and verbal ingenuity. In these essays, Sitwell emerges as a central figure in an alternative avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain."--Faye Hammill, author of Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona that has too often overshadowed serious writing about her work, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell argues that Sitwell was crucial to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. With Sitwell as an influential literary player and social architect, the British interwar arts scene was not an ascetic escape from personality--as the modernism of Pound and Eliot has often been characterized--but an alternative space of flamboyant, extravagant, and ornate performance. Allan Pero is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Gyllian Phillips is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207800
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facades written by John Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in Cyril Connolly's words, 'had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.' Picking up protégés and starting feuds with equal alacrity they were never far from controversy and were often slighted for being better known for the façades which they put up around their work rather than their artistic out-put in itself. Whether these façades were set up to hide their art or their deeply conflicted personal lives is one of the most compelling problems brought up by Pearson. With as much attention paid to both the private and public aspects of their lives, this biography captures the manifest intrigue of one of England's strangest and most flamboyant families, and the whole host of fascinating characters from T.S Eliot to Gertrude Stein, with whom their paths intersect.

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher : Virago Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781844085088
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell written by Edith Sitwell and published by Virago Press (UK). This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was, through four decades, the most prominent and celebrated woman poet in Britain. Among the notable admirers of her work were Siegfried Sassoon, WB Yeats and Gertrude Stein, Stephen Spender and Marianne Moore. Just after her death, Allen Tate described her in The New York Times as 'one of the great poets of the twentieth century'. Even as one allows for the ebb and flow of literary reputations, Edith Sitwell will have permanent claim on the attention of readers and literary scholars. She and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, were the focus of a movement in English Literature described as an 'alternative Bloomsbury'. This volume includes unpublished letters to many significant figures, including WB Yeats, Bertrand Russell and Benjamin Britten. It also contains letters that illuminate Sitwell's relations with other women writers, among them, Gertrude Stein and Rosamond Lehmann. 'I am besotted with this dotty old bat. Britain's most celebrated and eccentric female poet, she dashed off reams of witty, newsy, mischievous letters in exquisitely beautiful prose. Every letter is a gem' - Val Hennessy (one of her top ten books for 1997), Daily Mail

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Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Faith Binckes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450652
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s written by Faith Binckes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores women's role in shaping conversations about modernism and modernity across varied aesthetic and ideological registers, and foregrounds how such participation was shaped by a wide range of periodical genres. The essays focus on well-known publications and introduce those as yet obscure and understudied - including middlebrow and popular magazines, movement-based, radical papers, avant-garde titles and classic Little Magazines. Examining neglected figures and shining new light on familiar ones, the collection enriches our understanding of the role women played in the print culture of this transformative period.Key FeaturesHelps recover neglected women writers and cast new light on canonical onesHighlights the geographical diversity of modern British print cultureEmphasises the interdisciplinary nature of modernism, including essays on modernist dance, music, cinema, drama and architecture Includes a section on social movement periodicals

Author : Geoffrey Elborn
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Sitwell, a Biography written by Geoffrey Elborn and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Salter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by Elizabeth Salter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard Diepeveen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192559362
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Modernist Fraud written by Leonard Diepeveen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles. Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts of art scandals, such as the 1913 Armory Show, the 1910 and 1912 Postimpressionist shows, and Tender Buttons; to daily syndicated columns; to parodies and doggerel; to actual hoaxes, such as Spectra and Disumbrationism; to the literary criticism of Edith Sitwell; to the trial of Brancusi's Bird in Space; and to the contents of the magazine Blind Man, including a defense of Duchamp's Fountain, a poem by Bill Brown, and the works of, and an interview with, the bafflingly unstable painter Louis Eilshemius. In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable changes, but as an uncertain muddling and struggle with ideology.

Author : John Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by John Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: