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‘Man is the Measure’: The Individual and the Tribe in Modernist Representations of the Primitive

Originally published in Postgraduate English, vol. 32 (March, 2016) ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary study investigates the tensions inherent within the ‘anti-modern’ element of early modernism and its relationship to Victorian and fin de siècle narratives of modernity. Using Sigmund Freud’s Totem and

Forster, Stravinsky & the “Primitive”

A version of this post appeared on READ, the blog from Durham University’s English department on 1st July 2016. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, anthropological and ethnographic studies of so-called “primitive cultures” were hugely popular, and there was a