Instead of a Critic brings together pieces written over twenty years or so in search of whatever links them. The topics range from Anglo-German cultural relations and the refugee flight from Nazi Europe to myth, pictorial art and the ‘Two Cultures’ question. It touches on performance, whether in cinema, dance, ‘straight’ theatre or the American Musical. Above all, it expresses an enthusiasm for literature and what literature can do.

CONTENTS
Introduction
Aldous Huxley: Between Art and Science
Rupert Brooke
Bloomsbury
Rosamond Lehmann
Katherine Mansfield and Germany
Kafka: The Significance of Clothes
Franziska zu Reventlow
Rilke and Cézanne
On Translating Poetry
Three Poems by Hofmannsthal
Hofmannsthals in Exile
Egon Wellesz
The Gender of Mr W. S.
Nancy Cunard Sees Josephine Baker
Hedy Lamarr
Louise Brooks
Wedekind in English
Sondheim at 90
Mitford Connections
Myth: Its Manufacture and Recovery
Blood for the Ghosts
Newton and Supermac
The Two Cultures

Philip Ward, Instead of a Critic
June 2022
ISBN 9781739632205
RRP £7.99
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