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Be a good soldier : children's grief in English modernist novels /

"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, i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraser, Jennifer Margaret, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Children's Grief: The Return from Exile
  • Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief :Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
  • Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys' Five Novellas
  • Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
  • Childhood Grief on the Home-Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End
  • Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House and The Waves
  • The "Laughtears" of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
  • Conclusion : Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child.