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Fraser Jennifer Margaret <1966-> |
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Be a good soldier : children's grief in English modernist novels / / Jennifer Margaret Fraser |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Children in literature |
Grief in literature |
Grief in children |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile -- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas -- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End -- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves -- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.Jennifer |
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Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry - both as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war. A phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud, Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and meaning. Be a Good Soldier establishes a pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries into modernist childhood. |
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