The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

• Author(s): S. Henstra,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 182
• ISBN_10: 0230297358
  ISBN_13: 9780230297357
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Social Science / Sociology / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.