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Overview
This book explores key texts--Howard's End, The Rainbow, and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon, and Edward Thomas--to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement, exploring features often seen as failures. It also discusses the writing's increasing concerns with the inadequacies of language, seeing it within the frame of contemporary society and deconstructive theory, and attempting to locate them in relation to high Modernism.Synopsis
Explores the works of Forster, Owen, Lawrence, Sassoon, and Edward Thomas to assert their simultaneous extension and rejection of conventional forms, thus defining the characteristic feature of the period's writing.
Booknews
Finding the decade to be both important and confusingly diverse, Sillars (English, Cambridge U.) suggests that many features of the literature once seen as shortcomings are in fact strengths. He shows how writers simultaneously extend and refuse the conventions of their predecessors, taking examples from Sassoon, Laurence, Edward Thomas, Forster, and Wilfred Owen. He concludes by considering the texts in relation to high Modernism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
Booknews
Finding the decade to be both important and confusingly diverse, Sillars (English, Cambridge U.) suggests that many features of the literature once seen as shortcomings are in fact strengths. He shows how writers simultaneously extend and refuse the conventions of their predecessors, taking examples from Sassoon, Laurence, Edward Thomas, Forster, and Wilfred Owen. He concludes by considering the texts in relation to high Modernism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
226
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312224493