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New Puritans
The New Puritans was a literary movement ascribed to the contributors to a 2000 anthology of short stories entitled ''All Hail the New Puritans'', edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne. The project is said to have been inspired by the Dogme 95 manifesto for cinematic minimalism and authenticity. The young writers in the anthology deliberately eschewed many of the devices favoured by the pre-eminent British literary generation exemplified by Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. Manifesto The 10-point manifesto reads: # Primarily storytellers, we are dedicated to the narrative form. # We are prose writers and recognise that prose is the dominant form of expression. For this reason we shun poetry and poetic licence in all its forms. # While acknowledging the value of genre fiction, whether classical or modern, we will always move towards new openings, rupturing existing genre expectations. # We believe in textual simplicity and vow to avoid all devices of voice: rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Movement
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves, while other terms (for example, the metaphysical poets) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question. Further, some movements are well defined and distinct, while others, like expressionism, are nebulous and overlap with other definitions. Because of these differences, literary movements are often a point of contention between scholars. Table This is a tablelist of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance literature. Ordering is approximate, as there is considerable overlap. Notable authors ordering is predominantly by preced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony White (writer)
Tony White (born 1964 in Farnham, Surrey) is a British novelist, writer and editor. Best known for his novel ''Foxy-T'' (Faber, 2003), described by Toby Litt in 2006 as his 'favourite British novel from the past ten years', White has been called a 'serious, engaging voice of the modern city'. Since 2010, he has been chair of London’s arts radio station Resonance FM. Fiction White's first novels ''Road Rage'' (Low Life Books, 1997), ''Satan Satan Satan'' (Attack Books!, 1999), and ''Charlieunclenorfolktango'' (Codex, 1999) – 'bizarre, depressing and unreadable' – have been located on the ‘marginal terrain of avant-pulp’, where writers such as Stewart Home and Victor Headley 'channel the energy and drive of pornography, the skinhead paperbacks of Richard Allen and the cartoon anarchism of Leo Baxendale's Beano comics to escape the stylistic and rhetorical corsets of the metropolitan novel.'. In 2006 the Russian publisher, T-ough Press faced criminal prosecution for publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remodernism
Remodernism is an artistic and philosophical movement aimed at reviving aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, in a manner that both follows after and contrasts against postmodernism. The movement was initiated in 2000 by stuckists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, with a manifesto, ''Remodernism'' in an attempt to introduce a period of new "spirituality" into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankrupt. In 2002, a remodernism art show in Albuquerque was accompanied by an essay from University of California, Berkeley art professor, Kevin Radley. Adherents of remodernism advocate it as a forward and radical, not reactionary, impetus. In 2006, the Stedelijk Museum and the University of Amsterdam held a talk on remodernism with Daniel Birnbaum and Alison Gingeras; the introduction to this talked of the revival of painting as a possible return to traditional modernist values, such as authenticity, self- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudorealism
Pseudorealism, also spelled pseudo-realism, is a term used in a variety of discourses connoting artistic and dramatic techniques, or work of art, film and literature perceived as superficial, ''not-real'', or non-realistic.Eric Loren Smoodin, Ann Martin''Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957.'' Page 235.''University of California Press.'' By definition, the term is highly subjective. A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering. ''BLTC Research'', 1998. ''Use of term: pseudo-realism.'' Synopsis The term pseudo-realism has been used to describe a certain type of cultural commodities such as film productions and TV programmes which portray everyday life in excessively realistic detail in order to achieve greater impact on viewers.Examples Following the great shift towards expressioni ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-postmodernism
Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Modernism and postmodernism Most scholars would agree that modernism was an outgrowth of the European Renaissance and began to mature in the industrial age of the 19th century. Around 1900 it became the dominant cultural force in the intellectual circles of Western culture well into the mid-twentieth century. Like all eras, modernism encompasses many competing individual directions and is impossible to define as a discrete unity or totality. However, its chief general characteristics are often thought to include an emphasis on "radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic, rather than chronological form, ndself-conscious reflexiveness" as well as the search for authenticity in human relations, abstraction in art, and utopian striving. These characteristics are normally lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuckism
Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson (artist), Charles Thomson to promote Figurative art, figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art."Glossary: Stuckism" ''Tate''. Retrieved 16 September 2009. By May 2017, the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries."Stuckism International" stuckism.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017. Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos. The first one was ''The Stuckists'', consisting of 20 points starting with "Stuckism is a quest for authenticity (philosophy) , authenticity". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zembla (magazine)
''Zembla'' was a literary and arts magazine published in London for eight issues between 2003 and 2005. Background The editor was Dan Crowe, publisher Simon Finch and the designer was Vince Frost. The magazine's title came from Vladimir Nabokov's novel ''Pale Fire'', in which the narrator Charles Kinbote styles himself the last king of Zembla, a fictional northern country. One of the notable features was The Dead Interview, in which a modern writer offered an imaginary conversation with a deceased cultural figure. Subjects included Marcel Duchamp ('interviewed' by Michel Faber), Jimi Hendrix (Rick Moody), Harry Houdini (Mark Leyner), Henry James (Cynthia Ozick), Samuel Johnson (David Mitchell (author), David Mitchell), Friedrich Nietzsche (Geoff Dyer) and Robert Louis Stevenson (Louise Welsh). Several of these were compiled into a book, published by Granta in 2013. Several of the contributors were associated with the New Puritans movement, including Nicholas Blincoe, Daren King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas (born 5 July 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English author who writes contemporary postmodern fiction. She has published ten novels, including '' The End of Mr. Y'' and '' PopCo'', as well as the ''Worldquake'' series of children's books, and ''Monkeys With Typewriters'', a book on how to unlock the power of storytelling. She is Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University of Kent. Biography Thomas is the daughter of Francesca Ashurst, and attended a variety of schools, including a state junior school in Barking, Hylands School and a boarding school for eighteen months. During her teenage years she was involved in demonstrations against the Poll Tax, nuclear weapons and the first Gulf War. She studied for her A levels at Chelmsford College and achieved a First in a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London from 1992 to 1995. Her first three novels feature Lily Pascale, an English literature lecturer who solves murder myst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Richards (writer)
Ben Richards (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and novelist. He was the lead writer on ''Spooks'' and is the writer/creator of ''Party Animals, Outcasts, COBRA'' and ''Showtrial''. He also created ''The Tunnel'' from the Scandinavian original of “The Bridge” as well as adapting “The Cuckoo's Calling, ''The Cuckoo’s Calling''," the first in J. K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith’s ''Strike'' series for BBC1. Career Before writing novels and TV dramas, he worked for three years as a housing officer in London Borough of Newham, Newham and London Borough of Islington, Islington, London. As a research student at UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, UCL's Department of Geography he spent a year investigating public housing in Chile and on his return to Britain began his first novel "to alleviate the boredom of analysing questionnaires" for his PhD thesis. Richards was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and at University College London, where he taught developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Lewis (writer)
Simon Lewis (born 1971) is a Welsh novelist and screenwriter, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, in 1971. He went to school in Monmouth, then studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College in London. After graduation, he travelled extensively in Asia, before beginning work as a travel writer for Rough Guides publishing. He has since worked on five editions of the ''Rough Guide to China'' and is sole author of the ''Rough Guide to Shanghai'' and the ''Rough Guide to Beijing''. His first novel, ''Go'', a thriller about backpackers, was written in a village in the Himalayas. It was first published by small press Pulp Books in 1998, but, following favourable press, was picked up by Corgi (1999). It has since been translated into Swedish, German and Italian. His second novel, ''Bad Traffic'', is a crime thriller about people smugglers. It was published in 2008 by Sort of Books, and in 2009 by Scribner in the US. It has been translated into Swedish, German, Italian, French, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Litt
Toby Litt (born 1968) is an English writer and academic based at the University of Southampton. Life Litt was born in Ampthill, England, in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury. Career A short story by Litt was included in the anthology ''All Hail the New Puritans'' (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited '' The Outcry'' (2001), Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK. In 2003 he was nominated by ''Granta'' magazine as one of the 20 " Best of Young British Novelists", although his work since then has met with mixed reviews, one reviewer in ''The Guardian'' writing that his novel ''I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay'' "goes on ... and on, and on. There is plenty of story here, but little plot, and no tension." Litt edited the 13th edition of ''New Writing'' (the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
