The Many Facades Of Edith Sitwell
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Author | : Allan Pero |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081305284X |
"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 | : Edith Sitwell |
Publisher | : Duckworth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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"Façade, an entertainment of words and music, was first performed in public on 12th June 1923 at the Aeolian Hall in London -- to the alarm and consternation of the audience and the execration of the critics. Today Façade is recognized as a key work of the modern movement. An yet, after countless performances, it is the rhythms of Walton's music that are generally familiar, rather than the poems themselves. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of Edith Sitwell's birth, is the first sustained attempt to interpret the poems in their own right. Inspired by a sympathy for Edith Sitwell's life and work, Pamela Hunter -- who played the part of Edith on stage and television -- presents the full text of the 21 poems, followed in each case an illuminating 'scene' evoked by the poem and a brief commentary. Entering the private world of Edith Sitwell's childhood memories and associations, as revealed in the family autobiographies, she offers the reader a new understanding of this twentieth-century masterpiece. The text is enhanced by etchings of the seventeenth-century Commedia dell'Arte engraver Jacques Callot, which Sacheverell Sitwell compared to the 'vein of fantasy' in his sister's poetry." -- Provided by publisher
Author | : Edith Sitwell |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : John Pearson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1448207800 |
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 | : The Pace Gallery (New York) |
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Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Edith Sitwell |
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Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Adelaide Festival of Arts |
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Performances of poetry by Edith Sitwell and music by Sir William Walton (also conductor), music performed by the Festival Chamber Group (producer: Ruth Barratt), part of the 1964 Adelaide Festival of Arts, musicians are: Thomas White (clarinet and bass clarinet), David Cubbin (flute and piccolo), Kenneth Wooldridge (alto saxophone), Leonard Taylor (trumpet), Richard Smith (percussion), David Bishop (violoncello) and Raymond Fraser (violoncello), voices: Kevin McBeath and Morna Jones.
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Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Faith Binckes |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2019-04-10 |
Genre | : British periodicals |
ISBN | : 1474450652 |
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 | : Leonard Diepeveen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192559362 |
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 Pearson |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
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