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  • This series of international ford madox ford studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literaturehe wrote criticism, biography, and reminiscences about the pre-raphaelite artists he'd been brought up amongst - rossetti, holman hunt, and in particular his grandfather ford madox brownalso published here for the first time are generous extracts from biala's marvelous letters from the s about fordthis volume marks the seventieth anniversary of ford's deaththis volume includes sixteen new essays by critics and art historians on ford's engagement with the rapidly transforming visual cultures of his era, which break new ground discussing his writing about visual arts, and how it affected his fiction, poetry and criticismbut his art-writing ranges much more widely, from holbein to cézanne and matissethis work is discussed, not just in terms of what it tells us about art, but for what it reveals about the development of ford's own practice as a writer, and of his critical ideassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreamong numerous illustrations are several portraits of ford by janice biala reproduced for the first timeits focus is how his work engages with visual culturein london before the first world war he got to know avant-garde artists like wyndham lewis and henri gaudier-brzeska, and wrote about modern visual art movements, such as futurism, vorticism and cubismafter the war he lived in france with two painters, first the australian stella bowen, then the american janice biala, and moved in the modernist art circles of picasso, juan gris, gertrude stein and brancusiford came to advocate impressionism in literatureeach 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

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  • International ford madox ford studies has been founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature  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'these works, together with his trilogy the fifth queen, about henry viii and katharine howard, are centrally concerned with the idea of englishnesscritics of edwardian and modernist literature have been increasingly turning to ford's brilliant experiment in impressionism, the soul of london, as an exemplary texthis complex, ironic attitude to englishness makes his approach stand out from contemporary anxieties about race and degeneration, and anticipate the recent reconsideration of englishness in response to post-colonialism, multiculturalism, globalization, devolution, and the expansion and development of the european communityhe considered mass culture and its relation to literary traditions decades before writers like george orwell, the leavises, or raymond williamsall these, and other works across ford's prolific oeuvre, are studied herefrom another point of view, the essays here also develop the project established in earlier volumes, of reappraising ford's engagement with the city, history, and modernitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; each will relate aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timehis trilogy england and the english (of which this forms the first part) provides a central reference-point for this volume, which presents ford as a key contributor to edwardian debates about the 'condition of england'ford's apprehension of the major social transformations of his age lets us read him as a precursor to cultural studiesthe present book initiates a substantial reassessment, to be continued in future volumes in the series, of ford's responses to these cultural transformations, his contacts with other writers, and his phases of activity as an editor working to transform modern literature

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  • This series of international ford madox ford studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literatureford 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'this book takes ford's 'literary contacts' to include such creative friendships, editorial involvements, and influential biographical encounters; and they form the most substantial, central section on 'contemporaries and confrères', covering figures like proust, carlos williams, rebecca west, herbert read, and hemingwayone of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his timehe was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publishersthe present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary historyeach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timeit includes two pieces published here for the first time: one by ford himself, on turgenev; the other a memoir about ford by his contemporary, marie belloc lowndes (the sister of hilaire belloc)this volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprisinglawrence, and wyndham lewissee oxfam website for delivery information read moreford has been described as 'a writer's writer'after the war he moved to france, 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 joyce and gertrude steinthe first section on 'predecessors' considers the impact of ford's reading of trollope, george eliot, and turgenevhe spent more time in america from the later s, spending time with southern agrarians, and poets such as william carlos williams, charles olson, and robert lowellthe final section discusses 'successors': writers such as graham greene, burgess, and ain edwardian london he founded the english review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, ezra pound, dbut he was a prolific writer in many different modes, which include criticism of others' writing, and reminiscences of the many writers he had knownbut it also explores contacts with literary textsbyatt, whose literary contacts with ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent criticsin the south-east of england at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with joseph conrad, and befriended henry james, and h

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  • Some colour, but mainly monochrome, reproductions from painters including ford madox brown, william holman hunt, thomas gainsborough, samuel palmer, john everett millais among many otherssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport catalogue from a exhibition at the manchester city art gallery

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  • Edmunds ford and bowen lived together from tosee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe letters provide a portrait of ford not found in his memoirs and biographiesoxfam books & music bury st

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  • Oxfam shop magdelen street the challenge of bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by henry james, joseph conrad, and ford madox ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with realistic representation and toward self-consciousness about the relation between knowing and narrationarmstrong here addresses the pivotal thematic experience of 'bewilderment,' an experience that challenges the reader's sense of reality and that shows it to have no more certainty or stability than an interpretive construct  see oxfam website for delivery information read more

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