Leo Mellor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Mellor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mellor |
| SIGNATURE | MELLOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edwards (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Some cats of a long 1930s
It’s Only Chance That You’re Safe and Sound’
This article examines Humphrey Jennings’ film A Diary for Timothy (1945) and makes the case for understanding the form and aesthetic power of the film through the multiple meanings of the human body. Bodies — of the infant Timothy and of others — are literally depicted throughout in a variety of ways, showing both the cost of the conflict in corporeal terms and the different roles played by civilians in a Total War. But bodies are also used conce…
Listening‐in to the long 1930s
George Barker in the 1930s
This article traces the complex and potent role of classical mythology in the poet George Barker's work of the 1930s. Noting Geoffrey Grigson's rage about ‘narcissism’ when reviewing Barker in 1935 it shows why this barb was more perceptive and apposite – in acknowledging an obsession with both a figure and an overtly classical precedent – than the acclamation given to Barker at the time, from T. S. Eliot among others. Central to the article is a…
Words from the bombsites
This article explores what occurs when modernist writers, working in a genre with a history of interest in the ruin and the city, encounter the actual ruined city in the form of the London bombsites in the aftermath of the Second World War. The article focuses on David Jones's (1895‐1974) long poem The Anathemata (1952); David Gascoyne's (1916‐2002) uncompleted fragment 'A Bombsite Anchorite' (1948/9); and Rose Macaulay's (1881‐1958) novel The Wo…
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Words from the bombsites
This article explores what occurs when modernist writers, working in a genre with a history of interest in the ruin and the city, encounter the actual ruined city in the form of the London bombsites in the aftermath of the Second World War. The article focuses on David Jones's (1895‐1974) long poem The Anathemata (1952); David Gascoyne's (1916‐2002) uncompleted fragment 'A Bombsite Anchorite' (1948/9); and Rose Macaulay's (1881‐1958) novel The Wo…
George Barker in the 1930s
This article traces the complex and potent role of classical mythology in the poet George Barker's work of the 1930s. Noting Geoffrey Grigson's rage about ‘narcissism’ when reviewing Barker in 1935 it shows why this barb was more perceptive and apposite – in acknowledging an obsession with both a figure and an overtly classical precedent – than the acclamation given to Barker at the time, from T. S. Eliot among others. Central to the article is a…
Listening‐in to the long 1930s
Some cats of a long 1930s
It’s Only Chance That You’re Safe and Sound’
This article examines Humphrey Jennings’ film A Diary for Timothy (1945) and makes the case for understanding the form and aesthetic power of the film through the multiple meanings of the human body. Bodies — of the infant Timothy and of others — are literally depicted throughout in a variety of ways, showing both the cost of the conflict in corporeal terms and the different roles played by civilians in a Total War. But bodies are also used conce…
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