Modernism
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David Kynaston
Thursday 20 September 2012
Thursday 20 September 2012
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature Sept-Dec 12 | Modernism
28004
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Social historian David Kynaston discusses post-war social change, the economy and the public perception of modernity with Will Self, as part of our Modernism series.
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Gabriel Josipovici
Saturday 29 September 2012
Saturday 29 September 2012
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature Sept-Dec 12 | Modernism
28008
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Gabriel Josopivici is a leading novelist and literary critic whose timely book 'Whatever Happened to Modernism?' asks whether contemporary fiction has lived up to the experimentation and verve of earlier modernist writing.
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Jonathan Coe, Julia Jordan and Philip Tew
Saturday 29 September 2012
Saturday 29 September 2012
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature Sept-Dec 12 | Modernism
28009
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Novelist Jonathan Coe, author of a 'Like A Fiery Elephant - The Story of B S Johnson' joins Julia Jordan and Philip Tew, joint editors of Johnson's work, to discuss one of post-war Britain's most experimental writers.
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D.T. Max and David Baddiel
Tuesday 2 October 2012
Tuesday 2 October 2012
28258
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In his lifetime, David Foster Wallace was lauded by critics and loved by fans.
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Jacqueline Rose
Monday 29 October 2012
Monday 29 October 2012
28267
Jacqueline Rose is one of the great contemporary writers on the subjects of literature, psychoanalysis and politics.
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John Gray
Monday 5 November 2012
Monday 5 November 2012
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Political | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature Sept-Dec 12 | Modernism
28411
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At this event writer John Gray discusses Enlightenment dreams and Modernist nightmares with Will Self before they take questions from the audience.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Slavoj Zizek
Saturday 24 November 2012
Saturday 24 November 2012
Political | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks | Talks & Debate | Arab Spring | Literature Sept-Dec 12 | Modernism
28600
After his sold out appearance in Royal Festival Hall in 2010, Slavoj Žižek returns to Southbank Centre to discuss 'The Year of Dreaming Dangerously', his analysis of the riots and revolutions that swept the world last year.
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The Reckoning
Monday 3 December 2012
Monday 3 December 2012
28505
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Wrapping up our series on Modernism, guest curator Will Self chairs a panel of writers and critics including Owen Hatherley, author of 'Militant Modernism' and 'A New Kind of Bleak', to discuss Modernist writing and thinking in contemporary culture.
