Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End:
Modernism and the First World War
'There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great:
Parade's End is one of them.' W. H. Auden
First published as Some Do Not. . . (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up– (1926) and Last Post (1928), Parade's End has been described by Anthony Burgess as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’, by Samuel Hynes as ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, and by Malcolm Bradbury as ‘a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is exemplary’. In 2010–11, Carcanet published the volumes as major critical editions, providing for the first time reliable texts, detailed annotations and discussions of the textual histories. In 2012, the BBC screened a five-part adaptation, scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard, directed by Susanna White, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. The three-day conference programme, which examined and celebrated Ford’s First World War modernist masterpiece, included a launch party for the new Carcanet editions, a screening of the 1964 BBC adaptation of Parade's End (starring Judi Dench as Valentine Wannop), the free public event Parade's End: A Celebration, and papers from international experts on Ford, Parade's End, modernism and the First World War from the UK, the USA, Australia and across Europe.
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Keynote Address:
Adam Piette, author of Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939-1945 (1995) and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (2009)
Special Guests at the FREE Public Event
Parade's End: A Celebration:
Parade's End: A Celebration:
Susanna White, BAFTA award-winning director of Parade’s End (2012), Generation Kill (2008), Jane Eyre (2006), and Bleak House (2005)
Rupert Edwards, producer/director of Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special (2012), The Trouble With Tolstoy (2011), and Chopin: The Women Behind the Music (2010)
Rupert Edwards, producer/director of Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special (2012), The Trouble With Tolstoy (2011), and Chopin: The Women Behind the Music (2010)
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