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Author: Ford Madox Hueffer
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351346555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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"Provence" may perhaps be described as the crystallisation of the main idea running through the Great Trade Route, which we published a year ago. Of that book Mr A.G. McDonnell wrote in the Observer: "It is an Indictment, a Philipic....I know of no books to compare with this since Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man" But if "The Great Trade Route" was the destructive onslaught on dubious aspects of contemporary civilisation, "Provence" is the celebration of what might have been and what, according to Mr. Ford, may still yet be - contrasted with what is. For in that triangle of sun-baked , wind-swept, austere yet generous land, bounded as to its base by the Mediterranean and as to its sides, by the Rhone and the Alps, Mr Ford sees all the pride of past European splendour, the small healthy core of Europe's ailing present, the only promise for her future. How and why he sees all this his book alone can reveal, with its history, its moralisings, its descriptions vitalised and clarified by art.

Author: Dominique Lemarchal
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401200467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’; and Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’. After the war Ford moved to France, beginning Parade’s End on the Riviera, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. From the late 1920s he spent more time in his beloved Provence, where he took a house with the painter Janice Biala. The present volume, combining contributions from eighteen British, French and American experts on Ford, and Modernism, has two connected sections. The first, on Ford’s engagement with France and French culture, is introduced by an essay by Ford himself, written in French, about France, and republished and also translated here for the first time; and includes an essay on literary Paris of the 1920s by the leading biographer Hermione Lee. The second, on Ford and Provence, is introduced in an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, and includes a selection of previously unpublished letters from Janice Biala about her life with Ford in Provence. The volume also contains 16 pages of illustrations, including previously unseen photographs of Ford and Biala, and reproductions of Biala’s paintings and drawings of Provence.

Author: Laura Colombino
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042026367
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Preliminary Material -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE /Max Saunders -- INTRODUCTION /Laura Colombino -- FROM PAINT TO PRINT - GRANDFATHER'S LEGACY /Angela Thirlwell -- FORD MADOX FORD'S ART CRITICISM AS A RESERVOIR FOR HIS NARRATIVE POETICS /Vita Fortunati -- FROM PRE-RAPHAELISM TO IMPRESSIONISM /Max Saunders -- IMAGE-MUSIC-TEXT: FORD AND THE IMPRESSIONIST LYRIC /Ashley Chantler -- TO COOK, OR TO PAINT, IN PARIS?: FORD IN COLOUR /Sara Haslam -- VISUALITY VS. TEMPORALITY: PLOTTING AND DEPICTION IN THE FIFTH QUEEN AND LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES /Rob Hawkes -- THE PORTRAIT: FORD'S CHEF-D'ɶUVRE INCONNU /Gene M. Moore -- FORD MADOX FORD'S LITERARY PORTRAITS /Anna Viola Sborgi -- FORDING HOLBEIN /Martin Stannard -- SKULL/BRAIN DRAIN STAIN (THE AMBASSADORS) /guy mannes-abbott -- 'IF WE SHADOWS HAVE OFFENDED': THE METAPHOR OF SHADOW IN THE MARSDEN CASE /Jenny Plastow -- A MAP OF TORY MISREADING IN PARADE'S END /Mark Conroy -- MODERNITY, SHOCK AND CINEMA: THE VISUAL AESTHETICS OF FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END /Alexandra Becquet -- FORD, BOWEN, AND ITALIAN ART /Joseph Wiesenfarth -- FORD + BIALA: A LONG AND PASSIONATE DIALOGUE /Jason Andrew -- FORD, MATISSE AND THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE (IN)VISIBLE OBJECTS OF THE RASH ACT AND HENRY FOR HUGH /Laura Colombino -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABSTRACTS -- ABBREVIATIONS.

Author: Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611474531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that made him famous--the city of Alexandria--in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

Author: Nanette OʼBrien
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198871732
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this book illuminates modernist uses of the terms 'civilization' and 'barbarism', showing how these concepts are shaped by the rules of preparing and eating food in literature and in public. Nanette OʼBrien introduces the concept of 'culinary Impressionism' as an extension and repositioning of current scholarly thinking about Ford's literary Impressionism and his synesthetic writing about cookery and small farming. She also presents a new reading of Stein's crafting of her modernist authority as interlinked with her cooks, and shows Stein's and Toklas's jointly authored unpublished cookbook draft as evidence of their direct authorial collaboration and of Stein adapting domestic culinary techniques into her other writing. OʼBrien goes on to present new archival research demonstrating that Virginia Woolf's representation of the financial and culinary difference between men's and women's dining in colleges at the University of Cambridge is justified and the material inequality was in fact worse than previously understood. This disparity in institutional food intensifies Woolf's later reimagining of the term 'civilization'. While drawing on themes of modernism and life-writing, the everyday, domestic life and gender, the book argues that food is a vehicle for positive modernist re-conceptions of civilization.

Author: Sara Haslam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317043383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford’s fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.

Author: David Dow Harvey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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The Protean personality and career of Ford Madox Ford as poet, novelist, editor, critic, and '’miscellaneous writer" have made: him one of the most elusive of modern authors. In this bibliography, which includes extensive excerpts of writings by and about Ford as well as complete descriptions of the various editions of his book and periodical publications, David Dow Harrvey has at last made it possible to form a true estimate of Ford’s involvements with other writers and his contributions to modern literature. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484574
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford’s Writings explores the idea of history across various genres: fiction, autobiography, books about places and cultures, criticism, and poetry. ‘I wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time’, wrote Ford. The twenty leading specialists assembled for this volume consider his writing about twentieth-century events, especially the First World War; and also his representations of the past, particularly in his fine trilogy about Henry VIII and Katharine Howard, The Fifth Queen. Ford’s provocative dealings with the relationship between fiction and history is shown to anticipate postmodern thinking about historiography and narrative. The collection includes essays by two acclaimed novelists, Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Judd, assessing Ford’s grasp of literary history, and his place in it.

Author: N. Waddell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113726506X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.