Shell shock and the modernist imagination [electronic resource] : the death drive in post-World War I British fiction / Wyatt Bonikowski.
Publication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2013.Description: viii, 192 pOther title:- Death drive in post-World War I British fiction
- Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. Parade's end
- West, Rebecca, 1892-1983. Return of the soldier
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Death instinct in literature
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- 823/.912093561 23
- PR888.W65 B66 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: shell shock and the traces of war -- The invisible wound: shell shock and psychoanalysis -- Transports of a wartime impressionism: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end -- The "passion of exile": Rebecca West's The return of the soldier -- "Death was an attempt to communicate": Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- Conclusions: the ethics and aesthetics of the death drive.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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