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Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, November). Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30. Presented at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series, Northumbria University

Research talk (50 min) at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series (online).

From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, July). From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy. Paper presented at Beyond the Avant-Garde? Rethinking the Vanguard in British Music since 1970, Goldsmiths and the University of Manchester (online)

David Bowie’s Blackstar (2016) has been written about extensively as a final album, and conceptualised in terms of Theodor W. Adorno and Edward W. Said’s work on late style (e.g. Frayn and Durkin, 2017; McMullan, 2018; Schott, 2020; Graham, 2021). Th... Read More about From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy.

'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, June). 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war. Paper presented at Networking May Sinclair, University of Nantes (online)

This paper sees the post-war novels of the novelist, philosopher and poet May Sinclair (1863-1946) as negotiating between Victorian and modern values and literary forms: the First World War gives existing issues a focus during and after it. A suffra... Read More about 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war.