All Outputs (8)

Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918 (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(3), 193-197

Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air" (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air". In A. Frayn (Ed.), The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air. Wordsworth Editions

Published a decade apart and spanning the turn of the twentieth century, The War of the Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1908) are brought together in one volume for the first time in this Wordsworth edition...

Modernism and Imagist Poetry (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2017, July). Modernism and Imagist Poetry. Presented at Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh

Lecture to the Scottish Universities' International Summer School, University of Edinburgh.

Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2017, April). Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction. Paper presented at The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory Since 1914, University of Aberdeen

R.H. Mottram’s critically-acclaimed novels of The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1924-27) used to great effect his experience of the defining historical event of the age. These were his first novels, although he had previously been on the periphery of London’... Read More about Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction.

Introduction: Modernism and the First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction: Modernism and the First World War. Modernist Cultures, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0153

Introduction to special issue of Modernist Cultures on Modernism and the First World War. Surveys recent critical issues at the intersection of First World War and Modernist Studies, and introduces essays in the issue.

"It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2017, March). "It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. Paper presented at Scottish Network of Modernist Studies workshop, University of Edinburgh

“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature. In S. D. Brunn, & M. Dodge (Eds.), Mapping Across Academia (259-285). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1011-2_13

This chapter examines the resistance in literary criticism to making maps. Literary analysis is deeply invested in the construction of space and associated theories, but these have rarely been cartographical. Recent work that discusses the developmen... Read More about “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature.

David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A., & Durkin, R. (2017). David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

On David Bowie's Blackstar as embodying aspects of late style, as discussed by Theodor Adorno and Edward Said. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031