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The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction

A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post...

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Main Authors: Henstra, Sarah, 1972
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Grief > Political aspects
English fiction > History and criticism > 20th century
Memorials in literature
Grief in literature
Authors, English > Political and social views > 20th century
Literature and society > History > 20th century > Great Britain
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English
Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230297357
Summary: A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230577145, 2009.
Carrier Form: 192 p.
ISBN: 9780230577145
9780230297357 :
0230297358 :
CLC: I561.074
Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature Beyond Consolation Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier Mourning the Future: The Nuclear Threat, Prophecy, and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook Embodied Grief: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body and the Elegiac Tradition Conclusion: A Literature of Hope: Ethics and Mourning Notes Bibliography Index.

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