The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction / Sarah Henstra
出版項
Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
說明
ix, 182 p. ; 23 cm
附註
國科會研究人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計劃, 規劃主題 : 族裔與移民文學
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index
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
"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 like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia"--Provided by publisher
