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 lik...

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Main Author: Henstra, Sarah
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Subjects:
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Grief in literature.
Grief > Political aspects.
Memorials in literature.
Authors, English > 20th century > Political and social views.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
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505 0 |a 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 : nuclear war, prophecy, and Doris Lessing's The golden notebook -- Embodied grief : the elegiac tradition and Jeannette Winterson's Written on the body -- Conclusion : literature of hope : ethical mourning. 
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