Competing narratives : British memoirs and fictions of the First World War
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War examines five figures of British modernism who lived through the First World War and wrote canonical war books about their experiences. I use the prose narratives of Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Vera Brittain, Robert Graves, and Siegfried Sassoon to investigate the complex boundaries of the memoir, novel, and autobiography genres. I argue that, given cultural and historical context of the First World War, the irreconcilable tensions between these genres forced these authors to write their narratives in multiple forms.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Weare, Jessica Reid |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department |
| Primary advisor | Castle, Terry |
| Primary advisor | Jenkins, Nicholas |
| Thesis advisor | Castle, Terry |
| Thesis advisor | Jenkins, Nicholas |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jessica Reid Weare. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of English. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Jessica Reid Weare
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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