scholarly journals Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Jungian Psychology ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
The Arts

Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation through Literature,the Arts, and Jungian Psychology, by Darrell Dobson, SensePublishers,2008, ISBN 978908790417andEducation and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives, edited by Raya A.Jones, Austin Clarkson, Sue Congram, and Nick Stratton, Routledge, 2008,ISBN 9780415432590

Mediating Culture: Modernism, the Arts and the Woman Reader

Time and Tide ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Catherine Clay
Keyword(s):  
Early Music ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
And Function

This chapter examines Time and Tide’s early music, theatre, film and book reviews – a treasure-trove for exploring trends in interwar literature and the arts as well as debates about the nature and function of criticism itself. Focusing on the contributions of regular columnists including Christopher St John (née Christabel Marshall) and Sylvia Lynd the chapter discusses Time and Tide’s mediation of culture ranging from the modernist and ‘avant-garde’ to the ‘middlebrow’ and popular and posits that its position is identifiably feminist both in terms of its promotion of women in the cultural sphere and in its responses to developments in criticism in the interwar years. Engaging with such topics as the well-known ‘romanticism versus classicism’ debate and modernism’s ‘problem with pleasure’ (Frost 2013), the chapter demonstrates Time and Tide’s commitment both to educating the woman reader in a higher culture and defending traditional reading pleasures.

Book Reviews

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-459
Author(s):  
MARK MORRIS
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Department Store ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Story Writer

In 1925, a year central to the concerns of Advertising Tower, the short-lived short story writer Kajii Motojirô published a tale called ‘Lemon’. It has long been considered one the classics of Japanese short fiction. The climax of the story locates the focal character in one embodiment of Western-orientated Japanese modernity – the book section of Tokyo's Maruzen Department Store. The down-at-the-heel narrator has brought with him one shiny yellow lemon. He heaps up an armload of expensive, illustrated art books, sticks the lemon in the pile, and awaits the cataclysm. William O. Gardener has looked back at the decade of the 1920s in Japan in this fascinating, sometimes frustrating, always informative study of how modernism in the arts and literature were generated within Japan's particular experience of cultural, social and political modernity.

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