Fran Brearton
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263518
- eISBN:
- 9780191734021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263518.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture discusses The White Goddess, a novel written by Robert Graves that was first published in May 1948. It is an intellectual and difficult book that has a toehold in many academic ...
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This lecture discusses The White Goddess, a novel written by Robert Graves that was first published in May 1948. It is an intellectual and difficult book that has a toehold in many academic disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, and Celtic studies. As an author, Graves has been described as the ‘bard’ of ‘an alternative society’ and as a ‘a unique figure in British literary life’. The lecture determines that The White Goddess can be both a help and a hindrance when it comes to looking at Graves' life and work. It also presents the literary techniques Graves used in the novel.Less
This lecture discusses The White Goddess, a novel written by Robert Graves that was first published in May 1948. It is an intellectual and difficult book that has a toehold in many academic disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, and Celtic studies. As an author, Graves has been described as the ‘bard’ of ‘an alternative society’ and as a ‘a unique figure in British literary life’. The lecture determines that The White Goddess can be both a help and a hindrance when it comes to looking at Graves' life and work. It also presents the literary techniques Graves used in the novel.
P. J. Marshall (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263518
- eISBN:
- 9780191734021
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263518.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This volume contains sixteen lectures given to the National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2004. The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the ...
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This volume contains sixteen lectures given to the National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2004. The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis (a lecture given by the Governor of the Bank of England), Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam. There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfillment.Less
This volume contains sixteen lectures given to the National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2004. The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis (a lecture given by the Governor of the Bank of England), Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam. There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfillment.
Brian Holden Reid
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198222996
- eISBN:
- 9780191678561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198222996.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the ...
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This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the progeny of journalists rather than historians or participants in the revolt. In this regard, American journalist Lowell Thomas was especially influential because it was his picture show about Lawrence in Arabia that drew an enormous audience and framed the terms of reference for the ensuing legend. Some of the most notable works about Lawrence include the biographies With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves, and his own autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom.Less
This chapter examines the biographies written about the role of British Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt during World War I. The Lawrence legend in its fullest sense was the progeny of journalists rather than historians or participants in the revolt. In this regard, American journalist Lowell Thomas was especially influential because it was his picture show about Lawrence in Arabia that drew an enormous audience and framed the terms of reference for the ensuing legend. Some of the most notable works about Lawrence include the biographies With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves, and his own autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Ronald Hutton
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207443
- eISBN:
- 9780191677670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207443.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter examines the religious and spiritual ideas of selected individuals who flourished in the first half of the 20th century. The distinctions are, first, that their best-known work was ...
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This chapter examines the religious and spiritual ideas of selected individuals who flourished in the first half of the 20th century. The distinctions are, first, that their best-known work was produced slightly later — between 1900 and 1950 — and, second, that they had a direct and obvious influence upon modern pagan witchcraft and have been acknowledged by many modern witches as sources of inspiration. These individuals include Aleister Crowley, Violet Firth, Robert Graves, and Margaret Murray.Less
This chapter examines the religious and spiritual ideas of selected individuals who flourished in the first half of the 20th century. The distinctions are, first, that their best-known work was produced slightly later — between 1900 and 1950 — and, second, that they had a direct and obvious influence upon modern pagan witchcraft and have been acknowledged by many modern witches as sources of inspiration. These individuals include Aleister Crowley, Violet Firth, Robert Graves, and Margaret Murray.
Genevieve Liveley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199277773
- eISBN:
- 9780191708138
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277773.003.0016
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter focuses on a single poem from twentieth century poet Robert Graves to explore Graves' close critical engagement with Ovid's Ars and Remedia – an engagement that, on a more general level, ...
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This chapter focuses on a single poem from twentieth century poet Robert Graves to explore Graves' close critical engagement with Ovid's Ars and Remedia – an engagement that, on a more general level, comments on the challenges of reading (and misreading) Ovid's poetry over the past millennium.Less
This chapter focuses on a single poem from twentieth century poet Robert Graves to explore Graves' close critical engagement with Ovid's Ars and Remedia – an engagement that, on a more general level, comments on the challenges of reading (and misreading) Ovid's poetry over the past millennium.
Valentine Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198229742
- eISBN:
- 9780191678912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229742.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It ...
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This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It educated some of the most notable personalities in English literature including T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, T. E. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This flourishing of literary talent could be attributed to the university's strategy of incorporating creative writing to its literary courses and its ability to attract talented teachers and students from home and abroad.Less
This chapter examines the literary culture of the university during the period from 1914 to 1970. Twentieth-century Oxford contained an extraordinary matrix of extraordinary literary talent. It educated some of the most notable personalities in English literature including T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, T. E. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This flourishing of literary talent could be attributed to the university's strategy of incorporating creative writing to its literary courses and its ability to attract talented teachers and students from home and abroad.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226289533
- eISBN:
- 9780226289557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226289557.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter reviews the Minoan adventures of Hilda Doolittle and Robert Graves during and immediately after the Second World War. Doolittle and Graves were responsible for shepherding the more ...
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This chapter reviews the Minoan adventures of Hilda Doolittle and Robert Graves during and immediately after the Second World War. Doolittle and Graves were responsible for shepherding the more Dionysian fragments of Arthur Evans's Cretan pacifism across the apocalyptic wasteland of the Second World War. The Cretan material from “The Majic Ring” is united with the Psyche symbol that Doolittle borrowed from Arthur Evans to create an archetype of female defiance in the face of the insanity of war. “The Majic Ring” explores of one of the most painful, recurring themes of Doolittle's life. Seven Days in New Crete is founded upon a premise that Graves had begun to delineate in a 1937 antiwar manifesto. Doolittle and Graves survived their brushes with death only to find themselves enduring another global conflagration, and also recreated Minoan Crete as the goddess-worshipping Atlantis that must surely have existed before humans invented war.Less
This chapter reviews the Minoan adventures of Hilda Doolittle and Robert Graves during and immediately after the Second World War. Doolittle and Graves were responsible for shepherding the more Dionysian fragments of Arthur Evans's Cretan pacifism across the apocalyptic wasteland of the Second World War. The Cretan material from “The Majic Ring” is united with the Psyche symbol that Doolittle borrowed from Arthur Evans to create an archetype of female defiance in the face of the insanity of war. “The Majic Ring” explores of one of the most painful, recurring themes of Doolittle's life. Seven Days in New Crete is founded upon a premise that Graves had begun to delineate in a 1937 antiwar manifesto. Doolittle and Graves survived their brushes with death only to find themselves enduring another global conflagration, and also recreated Minoan Crete as the goddess-worshipping Atlantis that must surely have existed before humans invented war.
Jonathan Atkin
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719060700
- eISBN:
- 9781781700105
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719060700.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In our search for reflections of aesthetic response to the Great War across barriers of experience, the soldier, poet and author Richard Aldington is a good example of John Galsworthy's ...
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In our search for reflections of aesthetic response to the Great War across barriers of experience, the soldier, poet and author Richard Aldington is a good example of John Galsworthy's identification of the human spirit under the pressure of a seemingly mechanised military existence (the ‘herd of life’). He introduces a series of creative men who actually donned a uniform at some stage (though not always willingly) and fought at the front. Gerald Brenan was another fledgling writer in uniform who, like Aldington, felt his soul threatened by the strictures of war. Unlike Brenan, the poet Max Plowman declared his anti-war feelings and suffered a court martial. For Plowman and others, the experience of being within the war machine acted both as a compass towards and a justification of his later anti-war stance. Two further examples of this process concerned possibly the most celebrated poets of the war: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Robert Graves's concern was with the outward effect of an anti-war protest on the very individuals whom Siegfried Sassoon was supposedly trying to influence.Less
In our search for reflections of aesthetic response to the Great War across barriers of experience, the soldier, poet and author Richard Aldington is a good example of John Galsworthy's identification of the human spirit under the pressure of a seemingly mechanised military existence (the ‘herd of life’). He introduces a series of creative men who actually donned a uniform at some stage (though not always willingly) and fought at the front. Gerald Brenan was another fledgling writer in uniform who, like Aldington, felt his soul threatened by the strictures of war. Unlike Brenan, the poet Max Plowman declared his anti-war feelings and suffered a court martial. For Plowman and others, the experience of being within the war machine acted both as a compass towards and a justification of his later anti-war stance. Two further examples of this process concerned possibly the most celebrated poets of the war: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Robert Graves's concern was with the outward effect of an anti-war protest on the very individuals whom Siegfried Sassoon was supposedly trying to influence.
Tom Palaima
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0013
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Robert Graves’s war poems use an ironic distancing effect that distinguishes him within the long tradition of war poets from Homer, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, Archilochus, Aeschylus, Euripides and Virgil to ...
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Robert Graves’s war poems use an ironic distancing effect that distinguishes him within the long tradition of war poets from Homer, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, Archilochus, Aeschylus, Euripides and Virgil to the soldier poets of World War I. Graves’s rhetorical stance is linked to symptoms of post-traumatic stress developing in his childhood and intensified by his near-death wounding in World War I. Graves writes war poems in the clear, spare, and low-toned style of other soldiers and veterans like Ernest Hemingway, Tim O’Brien, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell. But he rarely forces readers to take in emotionally intense scenes, because he believes that those unbaptized in the suicidal sacrament of war cannot understand its realities. Graves’s cynicism about the capacities of power figures even to see the truth underlies the intellectualized satire in his translation of Homer’s Iliad and his poem about the Battle of Marathon, ‘The Persian Version’.Less
Robert Graves’s war poems use an ironic distancing effect that distinguishes him within the long tradition of war poets from Homer, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, Archilochus, Aeschylus, Euripides and Virgil to the soldier poets of World War I. Graves’s rhetorical stance is linked to symptoms of post-traumatic stress developing in his childhood and intensified by his near-death wounding in World War I. Graves writes war poems in the clear, spare, and low-toned style of other soldiers and veterans like Ernest Hemingway, Tim O’Brien, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell. But he rarely forces readers to take in emotionally intense scenes, because he believes that those unbaptized in the suicidal sacrament of war cannot understand its realities. Graves’s cynicism about the capacities of power figures even to see the truth underlies the intellectualized satire in his translation of Homer’s Iliad and his poem about the Battle of Marathon, ‘The Persian Version’.
Amanda Wrigley
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0017
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter explores the varied scholarly, critical, and public engagements with The Anger of Achilles, Robert Graves’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. It was a huge commercial success in book form, ...
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This chapter explores the varied scholarly, critical, and public engagements with The Anger of Achilles, Robert Graves’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. It was a huge commercial success in book form, often reprinted following its first publication in 1959. In the 1960s Graves vigorously pursued stage and film performances of the text, but while these plans continually faltered, it was in repeated performances on BBC Radio’s Home Service and Third Programme that The Anger of Achilles reached its largest audiences and attained its greatest critical success, with the award in 1965 of the Prix Italia for an outstanding literary and dramatic work for radio. This study emphasizes the fact that Graves’ creative adaptations of antiquity held enormous popular appeal, not only for readers but also for hundreds of thousands of listeners who may not, in the main, have been schooled in Classics.Less
This chapter explores the varied scholarly, critical, and public engagements with The Anger of Achilles, Robert Graves’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. It was a huge commercial success in book form, often reprinted following its first publication in 1959. In the 1960s Graves vigorously pursued stage and film performances of the text, but while these plans continually faltered, it was in repeated performances on BBC Radio’s Home Service and Third Programme that The Anger of Achilles reached its largest audiences and attained its greatest critical success, with the award in 1965 of the Prix Italia for an outstanding literary and dramatic work for radio. This study emphasizes the fact that Graves’ creative adaptations of antiquity held enormous popular appeal, not only for readers but also for hundreds of thousands of listeners who may not, in the main, have been schooled in Classics.
Isobel Hurst
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines Robert Graves’s poetry in the context of his classical education and his idiosyncratic responses to the canons of classical and English literature. Graves adopts a tone of ...
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This chapter examines Robert Graves’s poetry in the context of his classical education and his idiosyncratic responses to the canons of classical and English literature. Graves adopts a tone of humorous detachment in his poetry, and values writers such as Ovid. The Odyssey is an important influence for Graves, who interprets Homer as a satirist. In his reinterpretations of Greek myth, Graves celebrates his freedom to supply missing details from his imagination rather than having to adhere to scholarly standards of evidence, and creates alternative versions that critique the treatment of love and relationships between the sexes in patriarchal mythology from an unorthodox perspective.Less
This chapter examines Robert Graves’s poetry in the context of his classical education and his idiosyncratic responses to the canons of classical and English literature. Graves adopts a tone of humorous detachment in his poetry, and values writers such as Ovid. The Odyssey is an important influence for Graves, who interprets Homer as a satirist. In his reinterpretations of Greek myth, Graves celebrates his freedom to supply missing details from his imagination rather than having to adhere to scholarly standards of evidence, and creates alternative versions that critique the treatment of love and relationships between the sexes in patriarchal mythology from an unorthodox perspective.
Shaun Tougher
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter focuses on Robert Graves’ less-celebrated historical novel Count Belisarius (1938), an account of the career of the general who led the reconquest of the west for the emperor Justinian ...
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This chapter focuses on Robert Graves’ less-celebrated historical novel Count Belisarius (1938), an account of the career of the general who led the reconquest of the west for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century AD. The chapter explores its genesis (suggested to Graves by T. E. Lawrence), the theme of gender in the novel (represented by the use of a eunuch narrator), and Graves’s stated concern for historical truth (undercut by his inclusion of the story of the blinding of Belisarius by the emperor and his subsequent begging for alms on the streets of Constantinople). Despite the perceived problem of the character of Belisarius in the novel (as a one-dimensional noble hero and an innocent victim), the novel sheds much light on Graves’s life and concerns, such as his relationships with men and women, his interest in war, his need for money, his historical sensibilities and his public reputation.Less
This chapter focuses on Robert Graves’ less-celebrated historical novel Count Belisarius (1938), an account of the career of the general who led the reconquest of the west for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century AD. The chapter explores its genesis (suggested to Graves by T. E. Lawrence), the theme of gender in the novel (represented by the use of a eunuch narrator), and Graves’s stated concern for historical truth (undercut by his inclusion of the story of the blinding of Belisarius by the emperor and his subsequent begging for alms on the streets of Constantinople). Despite the perceived problem of the character of Belisarius in the novel (as a one-dimensional noble hero and an innocent victim), the novel sheds much light on Graves’s life and concerns, such as his relationships with men and women, his interest in war, his need for money, his historical sensibilities and his public reputation.
Philip Burton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and ...
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This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and Homer. It considers Graves’s statements on the role of the translator (traditionally seen as a secondary figure, dependent on the individual genius of the original author), and compares these with his view of poets (such as himself) as inspired devotees of the White Goddess. A partial explanation is offered in Graves’s self-positioning vis à vis other translators, such as Samuel Butler and T. E. Lawrence. Particular attention is given to his insistent appeal to Irish and Welsh traditions of poetry, and to his paradoxical status in the 1950s as both established literary figure and self-proclaimed outsider.Less
This chapter investigates why Robert Graves so consistently and explicitly adopts a ‘plain-prose’ translation technique even when translating authors as varied as Apuleius, Lucan, Suetonius, and Homer. It considers Graves’s statements on the role of the translator (traditionally seen as a secondary figure, dependent on the individual genius of the original author), and compares these with his view of poets (such as himself) as inspired devotees of the White Goddess. A partial explanation is offered in Graves’s self-positioning vis à vis other translators, such as Samuel Butler and T. E. Lawrence. Particular attention is given to his insistent appeal to Irish and Welsh traditions of poetry, and to his paradoxical status in the 1950s as both established literary figure and self-proclaimed outsider.
Andrew Bennett
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Robert Graves’s Claudius novels bring to prominence the structural tension within the genre of the historical novel between the empirical on the one hand and literary invention on the other. Graves ...
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Robert Graves’s Claudius novels bring to prominence the structural tension within the genre of the historical novel between the empirical on the one hand and literary invention on the other. Graves equates poetry with the non-empirical and non-historical, but figures prose fiction as empirical, linguistically confined, and historically specific. He therefore insists on a full historicity for his novels in order to assert the authenticity of his narrative and to confirm the soundness of his scholarship. Reinforcing an opposition of literature to history that originates in Aristotle’s Poetics, Graves emphasizes the novels’ historicity at the expense of their literary value. In doing so, he resists a conception of the literary as the undecidable combination of the singular and general envisaged by critics from Aristotle to Jacques Derrida. The novels achieve a kind of ersatz historiography but thereby largely forgo the rhetorically inventive and narratively innovative resources offered by prose fiction.Less
Robert Graves’s Claudius novels bring to prominence the structural tension within the genre of the historical novel between the empirical on the one hand and literary invention on the other. Graves equates poetry with the non-empirical and non-historical, but figures prose fiction as empirical, linguistically confined, and historically specific. He therefore insists on a full historicity for his novels in order to assert the authenticity of his narrative and to confirm the soundness of his scholarship. Reinforcing an opposition of literature to history that originates in Aristotle’s Poetics, Graves emphasizes the novels’ historicity at the expense of their literary value. In doing so, he resists a conception of the literary as the undecidable combination of the singular and general envisaged by critics from Aristotle to Jacques Derrida. The novels achieve a kind of ersatz historiography but thereby largely forgo the rhetorically inventive and narratively innovative resources offered by prose fiction.
Terri Blom Crocker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813166155
- eISBN:
- 9780813166650
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813166155.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Works from the interwar and immediate post–World War II period, when everyone in Britain was supposed to be thoroughly disillusioned with the conflict, demonstrate that in fact the narrative of the ...
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Works from the interwar and immediate post–World War II period, when everyone in Britain was supposed to be thoroughly disillusioned with the conflict, demonstrate that in fact the narrative of the war was still at this point hotly disputed, and remained so through the late 1950s. Memoirs, treatises, novels, general histories, and polemics all took different attitudes toward the war, and the truce was an important part of this contested narrative: some dismissed it as a mere curiosity, while others contended that the cease-fire signified an important moral about the conflict.Less
Works from the interwar and immediate post–World War II period, when everyone in Britain was supposed to be thoroughly disillusioned with the conflict, demonstrate that in fact the narrative of the war was still at this point hotly disputed, and remained so through the late 1950s. Memoirs, treatises, novels, general histories, and polemics all took different attitudes toward the war, and the truce was an important part of this contested narrative: some dismissed it as a mere curiosity, while others contended that the cease-fire signified an important moral about the conflict.
Andrew Thacker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199654291
- eISBN:
- 9780191803635
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199654291.003.0027
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses the histories of three magazines that ran from 1919 to 1923: Coterie, New Coterie, and The Owl. Coterie was a classic ‘little magazine’ of the period after the First World War, ...
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This chapter discusses the histories of three magazines that ran from 1919 to 1923: Coterie, New Coterie, and The Owl. Coterie was a classic ‘little magazine’ of the period after the First World War, publishing six issues from May 1919 to Winter 1920–1 before folding. It was relaunched as New Coterie, running from November 1925 to the Autumn of 1927. Robert Graves's The Owl was, in many ways, much more of an inward-looking coterie production than Coterie, being funded and co-edited by his father-in-law, William Nicholson, and his friend W. J. Turner, and containing work by Nicholson, Graves, and Graves's wife, Nancy Nicholson. The chapter examines both the complexity of the cultural formations associated with Coterie and The Owl, and the nature of the cultural environment for magazine publication in the years immediately following the First World War.Less
This chapter discusses the histories of three magazines that ran from 1919 to 1923: Coterie, New Coterie, and The Owl. Coterie was a classic ‘little magazine’ of the period after the First World War, publishing six issues from May 1919 to Winter 1920–1 before folding. It was relaunched as New Coterie, running from November 1925 to the Autumn of 1927. Robert Graves's The Owl was, in many ways, much more of an inward-looking coterie production than Coterie, being funded and co-edited by his father-in-law, William Nicholson, and his friend W. J. Turner, and containing work by Nicholson, Graves, and Graves's wife, Nancy Nicholson. The chapter examines both the complexity of the cultural formations associated with Coterie and The Owl, and the nature of the cultural environment for magazine publication in the years immediately following the First World War.
A. G. G. Gibson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The poet Robert Graves's use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his ...
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The poet Robert Graves's use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of chapters provides the latest scholarship on Graves's historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius, Claudius the God, and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The chapters explore Graves's unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.Less
The poet Robert Graves's use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of chapters provides the latest scholarship on Graves's historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius, Claudius the God, and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The chapters explore Graves's unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.
Jay David Atlas
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195133004
- eISBN:
- 9780199850181
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133004.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in their work called The Reader over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, state that one of the illustrated Principles of Clear Statement involves how ...
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Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in their work called The Reader over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, state that one of the illustrated Principles of Clear Statement involves how doubt should not exist regarding issues of how long and how much. As such, Graves and Hodge were able to give their opinions about the use of almost and not quite. The use of these two words not only entails the importance of some logical ordering, but also points out that there are certain degrees of success that can be comparable and are utilized on understanding the notion of approximation. This chapter examines the use of conjunctions in the context of contradiction, and includes a discussion about “post-Gricean pragmatics.”Less
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in their work called The Reader over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, state that one of the illustrated Principles of Clear Statement involves how doubt should not exist regarding issues of how long and how much. As such, Graves and Hodge were able to give their opinions about the use of almost and not quite. The use of these two words not only entails the importance of some logical ordering, but also points out that there are certain degrees of success that can be comparable and are utilized on understanding the notion of approximation. This chapter examines the use of conjunctions in the context of contradiction, and includes a discussion about “post-Gricean pragmatics.”
Sara Haslam
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719060557
- eISBN:
- 9781781700099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719060557.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter introduces the concept of Ford Madox Ford's ‘positive fictions’, and offers a way of reading Ford's dedication to his grandfather as well as to his grandfather's circle (especially the ...
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This chapter introduces the concept of Ford Madox Ford's ‘positive fictions’, and offers a way of reading Ford's dedication to his grandfather as well as to his grandfather's circle (especially the Pre-Raphaelites) that feeds into the content and the visual style of these texts. It also reintroduces the ‘woman question’, focusing on four novels that reconstruct worlds of alternative systems which emanate from the fragmented consciousness of men such as Grimshaw. These novels are The ‘Half Moon’ (1909), Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911), The New Humpty Dumpty (1912) and The Young Lovell (1913). In some texts, Ford investigates the contemporary rage/fear in male reactions to women, together with the healing qualities of what Carl Jung termed the female archetypes. Jung's theories, and Robert Graves's writings, are used as part of an illuminatory test of Jung's assertion that ‘our world seems to be dis-infected of witches’, when the world is Ford's positive fictions. These fictions possess roots that mean the multiple perspectives central to modernism often regenerate as well as destroy.Less
This chapter introduces the concept of Ford Madox Ford's ‘positive fictions’, and offers a way of reading Ford's dedication to his grandfather as well as to his grandfather's circle (especially the Pre-Raphaelites) that feeds into the content and the visual style of these texts. It also reintroduces the ‘woman question’, focusing on four novels that reconstruct worlds of alternative systems which emanate from the fragmented consciousness of men such as Grimshaw. These novels are The ‘Half Moon’ (1909), Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911), The New Humpty Dumpty (1912) and The Young Lovell (1913). In some texts, Ford investigates the contemporary rage/fear in male reactions to women, together with the healing qualities of what Carl Jung termed the female archetypes. Jung's theories, and Robert Graves's writings, are used as part of an illuminatory test of Jung's assertion that ‘our world seems to be dis-infected of witches’, when the world is Ford's positive fictions. These fictions possess roots that mean the multiple perspectives central to modernism often regenerate as well as destroy.
Cathy Gere
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226289533
- eISBN:
- 9780226289557
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226289557.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching ...
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In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. This book relates the story of Evans's excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, the book paints a portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.Less
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. This book relates the story of Evans's excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, the book paints a portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
