Be a Good Soldier : : Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels / / Jennifer Fraser.
In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investi...
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Fraser, Jennifer , author. Be a Good Soldier : Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels / Jennifer Fraser. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2011 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile -- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas -- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End -- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves -- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.Jennifer Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry - both as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war. A phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud, Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and meaning. Be a Good Soldier establishes a pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries into modernist childhood. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Children in literature. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Grief in children. Grief in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9781442643130 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442695504 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442695504.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile -- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas -- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End -- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves -- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile -- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas -- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End -- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves -- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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