Writers at War

Writers at War

Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden

Brasme, Isabelle

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2023

176

Dura

Inglês

9781032219660

15 a 20 dias

508

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Introduction

1 Ford Madox Ford's Unrelatable Narrative of War

Introduction

The elusive 'Muse of War'

Writing as ethical imperative

From ethical injunction to aesthetic reinvention

Conclusion: towards Parade's End

2 'The Fantastic Dislocation of War': May Sinclair's Aporetic War Chronicle

Introduction

A war journal?

'The high comedy of disaster': Sinclair's carnivalesque narrative

From representational crisis to an alternative mimesis

Conclusion

3 Writing Oneself at War: Siegfried Sassoon's War Diaries

Introduction

The generic fluidity of Sassoon's war diaries

Writing a myth of oneself

An instance of intensely layered writing: recounting the attack on Fontaine-les-Croisilles

Conclusion

4 From the 'Bleeding Edge' of War: The Singular Voice of Mary Borden

Introduction

Writing in defiance of the conventional nurse figure

A liminal geography of care

Writing alienation

Conclusion: modernism and mimesis

Conclusion
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Literary Impressionism;Parade's End;Forbidden Zone;War Diaries;Sinclair's Text;Ford's War;War Prose;Young Man;Dead Men;Siegfried Sassoon;War Nurse;Ford's Description;Ford Madox Ford's Parade;Battle Of The Somme;Borden's Text;Ambulance Corps;Ford's Writing;War Poetry;Infantry Officer;World War Nurses;Royal Welch Fusiliers;Kislak Center;De Bont;Cubist Picture;Regimental Records