Loving arms : British women writing the Second World War / / Karen Schneider
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| Autore: |
Schneider Karen <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Loving arms : British women writing the Second World War / / Karen Schneider
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997 |
| ©1997 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/358 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain - Literature and the war | |
| Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
| English literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| War stories, English - History and criticism | |
| World War, 1914-1918 - Women - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating War; 1 Discerning the Plots; 2 Inscribing An/Other Story: Katharine Burdekin, Stevie Smith, and the Move toward Rebellion; 3 Double-Voiced Discourse: Elizabeth Bowen's Collaboration and Resistance; 4 Re-Plotting the War(s): Virginia Woolf's Radical Legacy; 5 A Different Story: Doris Lessing's Great Escape; Coda: As Time Goes By; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II.Evoking the famous ""St. Crispin's Day"" speech from Henry V and then her own father's account of being moved to tears on V-J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far-reaching potency. She admits -- perhaps for a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Loving arms |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-8180-1 |
| 0-8131-6134-7 | |
| 0-8131-7068-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812718303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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