PETER MILES
Biographic Data
| ID | 5136447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | PETER MILES |
| GIVEN NAMES | PETER |
| FAMILY NAME | MILES |
| SIGNATURE | MILES P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A child of the Jago
The Writer at the Takutu River
This essay discusses the conflicts that Evelyn Waugh saw at the heart of modern experience and of the modern art with which the young Waugh initially identified his ambitions. It traces this conflict through Waugh's travels of the 1930s, which took the writer in search of a modernist identity through the Mediterranean, to Africa, to South America and to Mexico. While Waugh sought to render through the terms of his perception ‘the peculiar favour …
Cinema, Literature & Society
During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American val…
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Cinema, Literature & Society
During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American val…
The Writer at the Takutu River
This essay discusses the conflicts that Evelyn Waugh saw at the heart of modern experience and of the modern art with which the young Waugh initially identified his ambitions. It traces this conflict through Waugh's travels of the 1930s, which took the writer in search of a modernist identity through the Mediterranean, to Africa, to South America and to Mexico. While Waugh sought to render through the terms of his perception ‘the peculiar favour …
A child of the Jago
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