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Staging the Obscene in a Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys
Miranda Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English- speaking world 21 | 2020 Modernism and the Obscene Staging the Obscene in A Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys Florence Marie Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/27847 DOI: 10.4000/miranda.27847 ISSN: 2108-6559 Publisher Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès Electronic reference Florence Marie, “Staging the Obscene in A Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys ”, Miranda [Online], 21 | 2020, Online since 09 October 2020, connection on 16 February 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/27847 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.27847 This text was automatically generated on 16 February 2021. Miranda is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Staging the Obscene in A Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys 1 Staging the Obscene in A Glastonbury Romance (1932) by John Cowper Powys Florence Marie 1 “Nobody quite knows what the word ‘obscene’ itself means, or what it is intended to mean: but gradually all the old words that belong to the body below the navel have come to be judged as obscene. Obscene means today that the policeman thinks he has a right to arrest you, nothing else” (Lawrence 625). As made clear by D. H. Lawrence in 1929, there existed no definition of the term “obscenity” under English statute law. Nevertheless the idea that “fiction has the power to corrupt and offend in its cultural significance” (Potter 2013b, 10) and as a consequence that censorship was advisable was still very much in the foreground in the 1920s. -
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd i 6/9/2001 3:18:11 PM The Continuum Companion to Anarchism Edited by Ruth Kinna 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd iii 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Ruth Kinna and Contributors, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt ed, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the permission of the publishers. E ISBN: 978-1-4411-4270-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record of this title is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in the United States of America 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd iv 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contents Contributors viii Acknowledgements xiv Part I – Research on Anarchism 1 Introduction 3 Ruth Kinna Part II – Approaches to Anarchist Research 2 Research Methods and Problems: Postanarchism 41 Saul Newman 3 Anarchism and Analytic Philosophy 50 Benjamin Franks 4 Anarchism and Art History: Methodologies of Insurrection 72 Allan Antliff 5 Participant Observation 86 Uri Gordon 6 Anarchy, Anarchism and International Relations 96 Alex Prichard Part III – Current Research in Anarchist Studies 7 Bridging the Gaps: Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Anarchist Thought 111 Carissa Honeywell 8 The Hitchhiker as Theorist: Rethinking Sociology and Anthropology from an Anarchist Perspective 140 Jonathan Purkis 9 Genders and Sexualities in Anarchist Movements 162 Sandra Jeppesen and Holly Nazar v 9781441172129_Pre_Final_txt_print.indd v 6/9/2001 3:18:13 PM Contents 10 Literature and Anarchism 192 David Goodway 11 Anarchism and the Future of Revolution 212 Laurence Davis 12 Social Ecology 233 Andy Price 1 3 Leyendo el anarchismo a través de ojos latinoamericanos : Reading Anarchism through Latin American Eyes 252 Sara C. -
Weymouth Sands to Owen Glendower
Durham E-Theses The shattered skull: a study of john Cowper Powys' ction Fox, Jeremy Robin How to cite: Fox, Jeremy Robin (1991) The shattered skull: a study of john Cowper Powys' ction, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6023/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. THE SHATTERED SKULL: A STUDY OF JOHN COWPER POWYS' FICTION JEREMY ROBIN FOX A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND THEOLOGY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM SEPTEMBER 1991 2 1 J UL 1992 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ....................................................... -
Reader's Companion to John Cowper Powys's a Glastonbury Romance
John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance: A Reader’s Companion Updated and Expanded Edition W. J. Keith December 2010 . “Reader’s Companions” by Prof. W.J. Keith to other Powys works are available at: https://www.powys-society.org/Articles.html Preface The aim of this list is to provide background information that will enrich a reading of Powys’s novel/ romance. It glosses biblical, literary and other allusions, identifies quotations, explains geographical and historical references, and offers any commentary that may throw light on the more complex aspects of the text. Biblical citations are from the Authorized (King James) Version. (When any quotation is involved, the passage is listed under the first word even if it is “a” or “the”.) References are to the first edition of A Glastonbury Romance, but I follow G. Wilson Knight’s admirable example in including the equivalent page-numbers of the 1955 Macdonald edition (which are also those of the 1975 Picador edition), here in square brackets. Cuts were made in the latter edition, mainly in the “Wookey Hole” chapter as a result of the libel action of 1934. References to JCP’s works published in his lifetime are not listed in “Works Cited” but are also to first editions (see the Powys Society’s Checklist) or to reprints reproducing the original pagination, with the following exceptions: Wolf Solent (London: Macdonald, 1961), Weymouth Sands (London: Macdonald, 1963), Maiden Castle (ed. Ian Hughes. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1990), Psychoanalysis and Morality (London: Village Press, 1975), The Owl, the Duck and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! (London: Village Press, 1975), and A Philosophy of Solitude, in which the first English edition is used. -
A Glastonbury Romance—Bert's Cauldron
Published in la lettre powysienne numéro 9, printemps 2005, see : http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/LettrePowysienne/number9.htm A Glastonbury Romance — Bert’s Cauldron NO WORD in literature, unless perhaps ‘ballad’ or ‘legend’, can have more power to evoke the magical and the marvellous than ‘romance’. Under the roofs of Powys’s Glastonbury and under the craniums of its extraordinary inhabitants marvels occur as everyday happenings. In John Cowper Powys’s letter to Frances Gregg in 19311 he writes of his intention to invent the characters of his book “in Vacuo out of life and experience”—a phrase which, in his case, must imply a very broad imaginative scope indeed. Mr Geard—‘Bloody Johnny’—the holy magician of the story, was laughingly compared by Canon William Crow to Rabelais’s “Frère Jean 2 des Entommeures”, “Friar John of the Funnels” . Geard describes himself as a conduit—receiving, channelling and knowing vicariously the feelings and sensations of those in the world around him and drawing on forces and powers from beyond the visible world. He is a medium. Geard’s creator, John Cowper Powys, is a medium of a very different kind—the funnel and conduit of his own unfettered imagination, free to dictate and shape A Glastonbury Romance. The result is a poetic and extremely complex book which almost defies overall cohesive study. Glastonbury is itself a character of the romance. The life of the town is dreamlike, vivid to the senses and contained in its own reality. It is affected by the consciousnesses of those who have been there, by personified forces (or gods)—particularly Chance—and by the dual malice and goodness of a ‘First Cause’ interacting with the goodness and malice in all other identities. -
Anarchism and the British Warfare State: the Prosecution of the War Commentary Anarchists, 1945*
IRSH 60 (2015), pp. 257–284 doi:10.1017/S0020859015000188 © 2015 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Anarchism and the British Warfare State: The Prosecution of the War Commentary Anarchists, 1945* C ARISSA H ONEYWELL Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University Heart of the Campus Building, Collegiate Crescent, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield S10 2BQ, UK E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT: The arrest and prosecution in 1945 of a small group of London anarchists associated with the radical anti-militarist and anti-war publication War Commentary at first appears to be a surprising and anomalous set of events, given that this group was hitherto considered to be too marginal and lacking in influence to raise official concern. This article argues that in the closing months of World War II the British government decided to suppress War Commentary because officials feared that its polemic might foment political turmoil and thwart postwar policy agendas as military personnel began to demobilize and reassert their civilian identities. For a short period of time, in an international context of “demobilization crisis”, anarchist anti-militarist polemic became a focus of both state fears of unrest and a public sphere fearing ongoing military regulation of public affairs. Analysing the positions taken by the anarchists and government in the course of the events leading to the prosecution of the editors of War Commentary, the article will draw on “warfare- state” revisions to the traditional “welfare-state” historiography of the period for a more comprehensive view of the context of these events. At the beginning of 1945, shortly before the war ended, a small group of London anarchists associated with the radical anti-militarist and anti-war publication War Commentary1 were arrested and prosecuted. -
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LANDSCAPE and MYTH in the NOVELS of JOHN COWPER POWYS by GWYNETH F. MILES MA Bryn Mawr College, 196?
c . \ THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND MYTH IN THE NOVELS OF JOHN COWPER POWYS by GWYNETH F. MILES M.A. Bryn Mawr College, 196? A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of English We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA September, 1973 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by the Head of my Department or by his representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Department The University of British Columbia Vancouver 8, Canada i Abstract Powys' novels are deeply rooted in a sense of place; much of their conflict develops through the effect of a particular locality upon the characters who live there or come there. This thesis demonstrates how Powys' sense of place is com• pounded of both a feeling for the physical landscape, and an awareness of the historical and mythical traditions which form its human past. Powys finds correspondences between the scenery and legends of a locality and the psychological states of his personae, and thus uses landscape and myth for symbolic purposes. The interaction of myth and landscape largely creates the characteristic atmosphere of the five novels studied here. -
In Defence of 'Morwyn'
Published in la lettre powysienne numéro 28, automne 2014, see : http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/LettrePowysienne/number28.htm In Defence of Morwyn THERE SEEMS TO BE a competition in the critical appraisal of John Cowper Powys’s novels as to which is the worst. The Inmates has been a strong contender, but for some the prize goes to Morwyn1. John Brebner, for example, complains that Morwyn “fails miserably as a novel”2. Glen Cavaliero, in his sensitive study3, finds specific elements to praise in Morwyn: he uses the words “coherence and economy“, finds the Rabelais presentation moving, and describes the “spirit of questing curiosity, mediated half-humorously through the psychological reactions of the narrator”. But he also writes “nevertheless Morwyn fails to realize Powys at his best”, especially in relation to the presentation of characters: he alleges that the character drawing is “perfunctory.... Morwyn herself is simply an idealized embodiment of the sylph- like figures of whom Powys writes more interestingly elsewhere.” John Brebner supplies the strongest case for the prosecution and the awarding of an F grade to Morwyn. He lays five charges against the novel: its arguments against vivisection are not developed, the characters are thinly drawn, the themes are not fleshed out, details in the narration seem to spring from the author’s whim and there is an overall lack of organization. Brebner’s explanation for this disaster is creative exhaustion. Powys is drained of creative energies after the previous novel, Weymouth Sands. Is a defence possible against so many charges? My position is “It was the worst of novels. -
The Truth of Phenomena John Cowper Powys & Johann Wolfgang Goethe
— 1 — Published in la lettre powysienne numéro 3, printemps 2002, see : http://www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/LettrePowysienne/number3.htm The truth of phenomena John Cowper Powys & Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1. THE REACTION to Goethe in Anglo-Saxon countries is not particularly enthusiastic, at least in the 20th century, whereas Goethe admired Englishmen, particularly Lord Byron. Victorians however still admired German philosophy and culture, and above all the Weimar Sage, to whom Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle, among many others, paid visits. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater in England, R.W. Emerson in America regularly referred to Goethe. A great many of these interactions between England and Germany were due to Thomas Carlyle, magnificent translator, literary “agent provocateur”. While for various reasons — among which one could take into account the world-wide influence of American culture, and the two wars — English people showed a flagging interest for German culture during the 20th century, there remained at least one writer who, in spite of fashion, retained all his life a deep admiration for Goethe. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) felt sometimes as though he was a re-incarnation of the German poet-philosopher. In his Autobiography, a bizarre but magnificent masterpiece, he defines himself as a “Goethe born in Derbyshire.”1 When still a young man, visiting Italy, his copy of Goethe’s Travel Sketches never left him, and he would play the part of “John Powys visiting the Fountains of Rome.”2 Although he liked Goethe and classical German culture, he hated German politics. During the two world wars, he wrote books against the imperial and national ideology of Germany. -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Herbert Read to T.S. Eliot: 1 October 1949: Herbert Read Archive, University of Victoria (hereafter HRAUV), HR/TSE-170. 2. Herbert Read, The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies (London, 1963), 353, 350. 3. Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism (London, [1965] 2000), 97. 4. For a useful discussion, see: Peter Ryley, Making Another World Possible: Anar- chism, Anti-capitalism and Ecology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain (New York, 2013); Mark Bevir, The Making of British Socialism (Princeton, 2011), 256–277. 5. Martin A. Miller, Kropotkin (Chicago, 1976), 166–167; Rodney Barker, Political Ideas in Modern Britain (London, 1978), 42 passim. 6. H. Oliver, The International Anarchist Movement in Late Victorian London (London, 1983), 136; see also: 92, 132–137. For a discussion of the signifi- cance of the Congress, see: Davide Turcato, Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution (Basingstoke, 2012), 136–139. 7. W. Tcherkesoff, Let Us Be Just: (An Open Letter to Liebknecht) (London, 1896), 7. 8. The report offered short biographies of Francesco Merlino, Gustav Landauer, Louise Michel, Amilcare Cipriani, Augustin Hamon, Élisée Reclus, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Bernard Lazare, and Peter Kropotkin. N.A., Full Report of the Proceedings of the International Workers’ Congress, London, July and August, 1896 (London, 1896), 67–72. 9. N.A., Full Report of the Proceedings, 21, 17. 10. Matthew S. Adams, ‘Herbert Read and the fluid memory of the First World War: Poetry, Prose, and Polemic’, Historical Research (2014), 1–22; Janet S.K. Watson, Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (Cambridge, 2004), 226. -
University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Wessex in The
University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Wessex in the Selected Works of Thomas Hardy and John Cowper Powys Lucie Ratzová Bachelor Thesis 2018 Prohlášení autora Prohlašuji: Tuto práci jsem vypracovala samostatně. Veškeré literární prameny a informace, které jsem v práci využila, jsou uvedeny v seznamu použité literatury. Byla jsem seznámena s tím, že se na moji práci vztahují práva a povinnosti vyplývající ze zákona č. 121/2000 Sb., autorský zákon, zejména se skutečností, že Univerzita Pardubice má právo na uzavření licenční smlouvy o užití této práce jako školního díla podle § 60 odst. 1 autorského zákona, a s tím, že pokud dojde k užití této práce mnou nebo bude poskytnuta licence o užití jinému subjektu, je Univerzita Pardubice oprávněna ode mne požadovat přiměřený příspěvek na úhradu nákladů, které na vytvoření díla vynaložila, a to podle okolností až do jejich skutečné výše. Beru na vědomí, že v souladu s § 47b zákona č. 111/1998 Sb., o vysokých školách a o změně a doplnění dalších zákonů (zákon o vysokých školách), ve znění pozdějších předpisů, a směrnicí Univerzity Pardubice č. 9/2012, bude práce zveřejněna v Univerzitní knihovně a prostřednictvím Digitální knihovny Univerzity Pardubice. V Pardubicích dne 30.6. 2018 Lucie Ratzová Poděkování Tímto bych ráda poděkovala své vedoucí bakalářské práce Mgr. Olze Roebuck, Ph.D., M.Litt. za její trpělivost a vstřícný přístup. Také bych chtěla poděkovat své rodině za jejich nekonečnou podporu a důvěru. Abstract This paper focuses on the description of Wessex in the selected short-stories of Thomas Hardy and in the novel Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys. -
John Cowper Powys's a Glastonbury Romance: Draft Final Pages (NLW MS 23948E)
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance: Draft final pages (NLW MS 23948E) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 12, 2017 Printed: May 12, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/glastonbury-romance archives.library .wales/index.php/glastonbury-romance Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk John Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance: Draft final pages Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 5 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 5 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................