Isabelle Brasme

Writers at War (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000827903
• Artikelnr.: 66893611

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the Université de Nîmes, France, and Researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She has published books on Ford Madox Ford, a collaborative volume on war writing and essays on Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, modernism and war writing. She is the Review Editor for the Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens.

Inhaltsangabe

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-lès-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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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-lès-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