A Fractured Landscape of Modernity [electronic resource] : Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck /
Wilkes, James.author.
This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Studland Beach; 2 The Hollow Land; 3 Seaside Surrealism; 4 Purbeck Underground; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash.
Photography.
Fine arts.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Arts.
British literature.
Photography.
Fine Arts.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Arts.
British and Irish Literature.