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Veteran poetics : British literature in the age of mass warfare, 1790-2015 / Kate McLoughlin.

By: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: xi, 320 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107195936 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/352697 23
LOC classification:
  • PR408.V48 M35 2018
Contents:
Veteran Poetics -- Poetics and Veterancy -- The Meaning of `Veteran' -- Modern Warfare -- Further Particulars -- Being, Knowing, Storytelling -- 1.Life Times -- Odyssey 1 Time Travel -- Nature Reversed: Robert Merry's "The Wounded Soldier' (1795) -- Complexions: Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) -- Late: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, `Ulysses' (1833) -- Conclusion -- 2.Strangers -- Odyssey 2 Xenos -- Dissonance and Hospitality -- Imposture: Betty Miller, On the Side of the Angels (1945) -- The Veteran on Trial: Helen Ashton, The Captain Comes Home (1947) -- Inhospitable: Nigel Balchin's Mine Own Executioner (1945) -- Malign: Nigel Balchin's A Sort of Traitors (1949) -- The Veteran as Demagogue: J. B. Priestley's Three Men in New Suits (1945) and Robert Henriques's The Journey Home (1944) -- Conclusion -- 3.Problem-Solving -- Odyssey 3 Scarred -- Erfahrung -- Detection and Pedagogy -- "The Air of a Military Man': Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (1890) -- "The Triumph of Instinct over Reason': Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1921) -- "The Reading of Subtle Signs': J. K. Rowling, The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015) -- Conclusion -- 4.Telling Tales -- Odyssey 4 Storyteller -- Talking Too Much -- `My Feign'd Story': Anon, "The Soldier's Return' (1804) -- On Speaking On: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1797 -- 1834) -- `Rose after rose after rose': Henry Green, Back (1946) -- Conclusion -- 5.The End of the Story -- Odyssey 5 -- Veterancy, Experience and Storytelling -- A Dropped Staff: William Wordsworth, "The Discharged Soldier' (1798, 1805) and The Prelude (1805) -- Legless and Handless: Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918) -- `No mud on him': Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) -- Unfathoming and Unfathomable -- Conclusion: Can the Veteran Speak? -- Listen: Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000).
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PR408 .V48 M35 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001455103

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index.

Veteran Poetics -- Poetics and Veterancy -- The Meaning of `Veteran' -- Modern Warfare -- Further Particulars -- Being, Knowing, Storytelling -- 1.Life Times -- Odyssey 1 Time Travel -- Nature Reversed: Robert Merry's "The Wounded Soldier' (1795) -- Complexions: Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) -- Late: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, `Ulysses' (1833) -- Conclusion -- 2.Strangers -- Odyssey 2 Xenos -- Dissonance and Hospitality -- Imposture: Betty Miller, On the Side of the Angels (1945) -- The Veteran on Trial: Helen Ashton, The Captain Comes Home (1947) -- Inhospitable: Nigel Balchin's Mine Own Executioner (1945) -- Malign: Nigel Balchin's A Sort of Traitors (1949) -- The Veteran as Demagogue: J. B. Priestley's Three Men in New Suits (1945) and Robert Henriques's The Journey Home (1944) -- Conclusion -- 3.Problem-Solving -- Odyssey 3 Scarred -- Erfahrung -- Detection and Pedagogy -- "The Air of a Military Man': Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (1890) -- "The Triumph of Instinct over Reason': Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1921) -- "The Reading of Subtle Signs': J. K. Rowling, The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015) -- Conclusion -- 4.Telling Tales -- Odyssey 4 Storyteller -- Talking Too Much -- `My Feign'd Story': Anon, "The Soldier's Return' (1804) -- On Speaking On: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1797 -- 1834) -- `Rose after rose after rose': Henry Green, Back (1946) -- Conclusion -- 5.The End of the Story -- Odyssey 5 -- Veterancy, Experience and Storytelling -- A Dropped Staff: William Wordsworth, "The Discharged Soldier' (1798, 1805) and The Prelude (1805) -- Legless and Handless: Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918) -- `No mud on him': Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) -- Unfathoming and Unfathomable -- Conclusion: Can the Veteran Speak? -- Listen: Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000).

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