Elizabeth Bowen: the enforced return

"Neil Corcoran presents here a study of Elizabeth Bowen's novels, short stories, family history, and essays, and shows that her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions." "Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return explores how she adapt...

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Main Author: Corcoran, Neil 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 2004
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:"Neil Corcoran presents here a study of Elizabeth Bowen's novels, short stories, family history, and essays, and shows that her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions." "Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return explores how she adapts Irish Protestant Gothic as a means of interpreting Irish experience during the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, and also as a way of defining the defencelessness of those enduring the Blitz in wartime London. She employs versions of the Jamesian child as a way of offering a critique of the treatment of children in the European novel of adultery, and indeed, implicitly, of the Jamesian child itself. Corcoran relates the various kinds of return and reflex in her work - notably the presence of the supernatural, but also the sense of being haunted by reading - to both the Freudian concept of the 'return of the repressed' and T.S. Eliot's conception of the auditory imagination as a 'return to the origin'."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:211 S.
ISBN:0198186908
9780198186908

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