"The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nuance to such accounts by exposing and exploring the reparative work done by counterfactual speculations and traditional imaginative forms in post-war writings by Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Kazuo Ishiguro"--
"The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nuance to such accounts by exposing and exploring the reparative work done by counterfactual speculations and traditional imaginative forms in post-war writings by Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Kazuo Ishiguro"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rachel Bryan is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in English Literature at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Essays in Criticism, The Review of English Studies, and The Henry James Review. She is currently co-editing The Other House for Cambridge University Press's Complete Fiction of Henry James.
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Introduction: the cracks in the vase and the lies in the Soul; 1. Untimely deaths and artful promise in Henry James's post-1890 writings; 2. Reading Henry James in first World wartime; 3. Imaginary widowhood in Elizabeth Bowen's 'A year I remember - 1918' and A World of Love; 4. Retroactive judgements in Elizabeth Bowen's the heat of the Day; 5. Traitors, Treason, and 'Topsy-Turvy' values in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The summer after the war' and An Artist of the floating World; 6. Art and consolation in Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go.
Introduction: the cracks in the vase and the lies in the Soul; 1. Untimely deaths and artful promise in Henry James's post-1890 writings; 2. Reading Henry James in first World wartime; 3. Imaginary widowhood in Elizabeth Bowen's 'A year I remember - 1918' and A World of Love; 4. Retroactive judgements in Elizabeth Bowen's the heat of the Day; 5. Traitors, Treason, and 'Topsy-Turvy' values in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The summer after the war' and An Artist of the floating World; 6. Art and consolation in Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go.
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