Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920
Published on 27. July 2016
VIII, 216 pages
978-1-349-27664-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores key texts - Howards End , The Rainbow , and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Edward Thomas - to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement, exploring features often seen as failures. It also discusses the writing's increasing concern with the inadequacies of language, seeing it within the frame of contemporary society and deconstructive theory, and attempting to locate them in relation to high Modernism.
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'Sillars keeps admirably close to his texts, and his discussions of the poets are especially thoughtful.' - English Studies
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Stuart Sillars
Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920
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08/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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STUART SILLARS is a writer and freelance lecturer in Cambridge. His earlier publications include
Art and Survival in First World War Britain
,
British Romantic Art and the Second World War
and
Visualisation in Popular Fiction, 1860-1960
, and numerous articles and contributions to collections.
Content
Acknowledgements Language, Tradition and Silence Howards End and the Dislocation of Narrative Wilfred Owen and the Subjugation of the Poetic The Rainbow : Language against Itself 'The Singing Will Never Be Done': Siegfried Sassoon and the Exile of Language Language Beneath Words: Edward Thomas An Epilogue on Modernism Notes Select Bibliography Index
