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: Philip Larkin, onslaught of the Blitz, and had apparently grown more unified in the face of this. The realities of rationing and frugality had emerged with increased sharpness, resulting in a general sense of ennui and apathy which continued beyond the VE and VJ day celebrations, which were themselves somewhat su

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,: British New Wave Cinema, British cinema. All of these films were adaptations of existing literary works — two from a novel, one from a short story and one from a stage play. Two of the four — the Shelagh Delaney-written . (1961), and . (1962), based on an Alan Sillitoe short story — were directed by Tony Richardson. Richar

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,: TV Satire/Comedy,s:.This definition is neat, but seems more applicable to a text such as William Shakespeare’s . (1602) rather than, say, Enda Walsh’s . (2006). A more pertinent account of the form in a contemporary sense follows:.Such a broad, inclusive account is particularly applicable in this chapter, where the

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,: Stephen Poliakoff, the stage. Indeed, it is his mid-1970s dramatic work that I find most interesting in the context of the cynic sensibility. The three plays to be discussed in this chapter — in chronological order, . and . — all bear the hallmarks of the sensibility. They all, with degrees of variation, possess the

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,: The Fall,as “always different, always the same”. From their foundations in 1976, the only constant member of the group is iconoclastic lead vocalist and lyricist Mark E. Smith. His original concept for the band as encapsulating “primitive music with avant-garde lyrics” has been the driving force of their out

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,: The Smiths,lliams would define it in broad terms: “the selective tradition”, more specifically. This chapter looks particularly at where the Smiths actually fit within this in terms of popular culture. In my view, they represent the culmination of the cynic sensibility, achieving a balance between its Bohemian