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English Literature
Third Edition
Richard Gil
macmillan
© 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants
May be used for personal purporses only or by
libraries associated to dandelon com network
Contents
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction xxv
Hints on reading Reading with understanding Making notes
Some dos and don ts of note-making As you study Preparation
and follow-up Making up your mind Essays Coursework
and long essays Revision Examinations
Part One The novel 1
1 Stories 3
1 1 Popularity 3
A best-seller The popularity of novels Talking about novels
1 2 Human identity 4
Stories in our lives Our lives in our stories
1 3 Thinking about stories 5
Fiction Fictions and lies Written and read Writing about novels
The elements of novels Literary study
2 Characters 9
2 1 Responding to characters 9
Engaged by characters
• 2 2 Characters, readers and authors 10
Knowledge Readers at work Characters, characterization
and persons
2 3 Language and the making of characters 11
Said and made Language revealing character The life of
reason The language of value The moral ambiguity of fluency
Declarations The mannerisms of speech Class and dialect
2 4 Dialogue 15
Everyday dialogue Dialogue and everyday speech The
presentation of speech The shaping of speech The politics
of conversation The revelation of character Dialogue and
theme
2 5 Last words 17
2 6 Language about characters 18
Physical language Mental and moral language The power
of character language
Contents v
2 7 Growing up 20
From childhood to adulthood The Bildungsroman Places
Authority figures Sexual awakening Choices
2 8 The contexts of characters 22
Gender Culture and nationality
2 9 Character range 24
Growth Open and closed characters
3 Narration 26
31A tale that is told 26
Tales and tellers Tales and knowledge
3 2 Narration, knowledge and characters 27
What readers can know Human responses Looking into minds
3 3 The tellers of tales 28
Authors and narrators Author Narrator
3 4 The grammar of narration: first person 30
Two types of first-person narrator Our view of life
First-person narration and knowledge The position of the
reader Security Growth Levels of awareness Unreliability
Moral understanding
3 5 The grammar of narration: third person 33
Telling and showing What narrators know Omniscient
narrators Single cases of privileged access Direct free style
Tense
3 6 External narration 37
3 7 Readers and problems 38
The authority of the reader Naive narrators Disagreeing
with narrators Multiple narrations Epistolary novels
Metafiction
3 8 Irony 40
Words and truth Words and meaning Intention and outcome
Appearance and reality Double irony
4 Plot 43
4 1 Plots and stories 43
Plots and knowledge
4 2 Beginnings 43
The exposition
4 3 Disjunction 44
Breaks, breaches, interruptions
4 4 Trajectory 45
Plots and aims Plot movement Parallels Plots as journeys
4 5 Features of plot movement 47
Looking backwards and forwards Discoveries Reversal
4 6 Plot incidents and materials 48
Thematic strands -Parabolic moments Re-using plots
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4 7 Endings 49
Neat conclusions The climax Forms of climax and closure
Denouement and resolution
4 8 The short story 51
Economy Narrative Themes and epiphanies Types of
short story
5 Settings 55
5 1 What readers remember 55
The enjoyment of settings
5 2 The functions of settings 56
Setting and action Setting and mood Setting and plot
movement Setting and the situation of characters Setting
and the author s outlook
6 The Scope of the Novel 59
6 1 Fictional worlds 59
Novels and the world Making worlds
6 2 Realism 60
Naturalism
6 3 Departing from realism 61
Time Fantasy and magic realism Mixed worlds
6 4 The personal and the public 62
Social and political readings
6 5 Social issues 63
Thematic locations Urban and rural Understanding
society The condition of England
6 6 Money 65
The uncertain treatment of wealth Money and plot movement
Money and morality Money and conclusions
6 7 Debate 67
The need to talk
6 8 Education and codes of behaviour 67
Self-improvement Social models Crime Crime and resolution
6 9 Domestic life 69
The family Brothers and sisters
Part Two Drama 71
7 Familiar Drama 73
7 1 Theatre-going 73
Television and film Real life Art Television, films and drama
7 2 Drama and the dramatic 74
Excess The strange and the wonderful Human extremes
The extreme and the everyday
7 3 Outlandish action: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 76
Vast schemes Language that fits the action Horrible
events Deception Emotional intensity
Contents vii
7 4 Two desires: love and power 78
Passion Other kinds of loving Appetite Killing the king
Love and power together The image of the Tarquins
Madness
7 5 Provocation 83
A political experience A mirror Questioning the audience
Controversy Controversy in performance and profession
Political control Shakespeare and Elizabeth I
8 The Language of the Stage 86
8 1 Verse and prose: mixing language 86
The conventions of dramatic language Blank verse Diction
The uses of prose
8 2 Verse and prose at work 88
Social distinctions Kings and verse Emotional
emphasis Verse and ideas Madness and prose Prose,
verse and dramatic function
8 3 Dramatic language 91
The distinctive feature The actions of actors Language
and specific actions Language and authority Language
and indication Language and grouping Language and
emotional states Language and theatricality
8 4 Monologue 95
The Chorus Soliloquy Public soliloquies The private
soliloquy Soliloquies and truth The self who speaks
The aside
8 5 Dialogue 98
Declaration and response The contours of dialogue
Thou and you
8 6 Wordplay 100
8 7 Common speech and bawdy 101
Common speech Bawdy
8 8 Ideas and issues 102
Thematic words and images Plots and themes Themes
and action
9 Action 104
9 1 Plot and actions 104
How plots begin Scene after scene Sub-plots
9 2 Expectation, pace, climax and close 105
Expectation Pace Climax Close
9 3 Ends and beginnings 107
Unities
9 4 Role-playing , 108
Roles and society Theatrical self-awareness
9 5 Present and past 109
Twentieth-century treatments of the past
9 6 Transformation 110
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Thematic actions
Image and actuality Emblematic actions Characteristic
actions
Community and nation
Society in twentieth-century drama History
Props
Few or many Props and themes
Excessive action
Burlesque Farce Plays within plays
Stage competition
A theatrical imagining
Characters
10 1 Characters and language
Verbal mannerisms Pope on language and character
Characters on themselves Characters talking about other
characters
10 2 Characters contrasted 118
Leading characters contrasted Thematic contrast
10 3 Stock characters 119
10 4 Characters and functions 120
Symbolic characters Characters as mouthpieces of
dialogue Character and plot function
10 5 Characters and trust 121
What can be questioned
11 Audience 122
11 1 Knowledge 122
11 2 Disguise 123
The freedom of disguise Impersonation Cross-dressing
11 3 Deception 125
Misinformation Misreading Misleading role-play
11 4 Overlooking, overhearing 126
11 5 Framed action 126
11 6 Audiences and theatrical traditions 127
Theatrical history Distance
11 7 Laughter 128
Expectation Like machines Proportion Limits Purpose
12 Watching and Studying 131
12 1 The theatre of the imagination 131
Performability Imagining performances
12 2 Types of stage 132
Shakespeare s stage The proscenium arch
12 3 Characters on stage 133
Silent characters
12 4 Design 134
Scenery Costume Settings Lighting Smells
Contents ix
12 5 Actors and acting 135
Age Size Voice
12 6 Centralizing women 137
Women in Shakespeare
12 7 Music, dance, songs, ghosts, fights 137
Music Melodrama Songs Dances Communal celebration
Dance and plots Dances and the close of plays Fights
Ghosts Theme and atmosphere
Part Three Poetry 143
13 Valuing, Performing, Hearing 145
13 1 Immediacy 145
Directness and force
13 2 An ancient art 146
Poetry and religion The Muse
13 3 Poets as artists 148
Nature and art
13 4 Reading and hearing 149
Questions about reading Tone and voice Hearing,
overhearing and the public
13 5 Persona 150
Dramatic monologues
13 6 Fluency 151
14 What Poets Make 152
14 1 Story-telling 152
Chaucer s tales Introducing the characters First moves New
character The plan Sympathy The plan in operation
Climaxes Judgements The issue of narrators
14 2 Ballads 155
Traditional ballads The literary ballad Romantic ballads
Victorian stories
14 3 Worlds 157
Faery lands Literary worlds Dream worlds Twentieth-century
worlds New worlds Re-created worlds Familiar worlds Past
and present
15 What Poets Think 162
15 1 Poets as thinkers 162
Taking poetry seriously Dealing with big issues Religion
Re-making thought
15 2 Experience and thought 164
General statements Unfamiliar views Titles Thought and
language
15 3 Selves 166
Discovering the self Autobiography
15 4 Art 167
Allusion Art about art
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16 What Poets Do: Words and Meanings 169
16 1 Meaning and grammar 169
16 2 Nouns 169
Common nouns Proper nouns Abstract nouns Pronouns
16 3 Verbs 171
Moods Infinitives Transitive and intransitive verbs The
participle Delayed verbs The main verb
16 4 Modifiers 174
Adjectives Compound adjectives Adverbs Articles
16 5 Other parts of speech 176
Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections Negation Double
negatives
16 6 Words and their meanings 178
Denotations and connotations Range of meanings Value
words Diction Complexity and ambiguity Verbal play
Multiple meanings Symbols and emblems Imagery: clarity
and evocation Experiment Critical language Simile
Metaphor Conceit Tenor and vehicle
17 Poetic Shapes and Sounds 185
17 1 Line 185
Line endings Line length Caesura
17 2 Stanza form 187
The couplet Three-line stanzas Quatrains Sonnets
Mechanical and organic form Free verse
17 3 Rhyme 190
Rhyme schemes Interlaced and enclosed rhymes Rhymes
and syllables Resolution Harmony Intensification through
rhyme Rhyme and meaning Comic poetry Para-rhymes
17 4 Rhythm 194
Pronunciation Beat Metre Variation The contribution of
rhythm Writing about rhythm Learning to hear
17 5 Sounds 198
Cadence Alliteration Assonance Texture Talking about
texture Timbre Movement, music, enactment
18 The Work of Poets
18 1 Practical criticism
18 2 Questions about whole books: what kinds of poems?
The world about us
18 3 What forms?
Lyric and traditional forms
18 4 What words?
Empirical language
18 5 What imagery?
Everyday images
18 6 What tone?
Two voices
Contents xi
18 7 What personas? 208
Versions of the self
18 8 What attitudes? 209
The outsider
18 9 What subjects? 210
England
18 10 What thought? 211
Poignancy and climax
Part Four Genre 213
19 Classification 215
19 1 Butterflies, birds and books 215
Classifying books The problem of classifying books Genre
Not an exact science Not prescriptive Threads and families
19 2 Conventions 217
The conventions of films The durability of conventions
Varieties of convention Public agreements Accepting
conventions Conventions and interpretation Conventions
and judgement
20 Tragedy 221
20 1 The place of Tragedy 221
A rare and broad genre
20 2 Philosophical issues 221
Aristotle
20 3 Tragedy and judgement 223
Art and belief
20 4 The tragic sense of life 224
Tragedy and Christianity
20 5 Hero 225
Characters apart Energy Will Authority Seriousness
Nobility Imagination Courage Grandeur
20 6 Fall 227
The inner fall The public fall
20 7 Suffering 229
Kinds of suffering Suffering, isolation and exclusion
The fall of kings Moral outrage
20 8 Faults 231
Laws, limits and being wrong Choosing wrong Flaws,
hubris, insolence and bravado Being one s own judge
Disdaining others Wilful display
20 9 Waste, knowledge and catharsis 234
Catharsis Communal catharsis
21 Comedy 236
21 1 Comic features 236
Comic variety Contemporary settings
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21 2 Characters and plots 237
A big cast Complex plots Plot functions
21 3 Play 238
A ludic art
21 4 Comic plotting 239
Comic conventions Enjoying conventions Conventions
and endings
21 5 Beginning comic plots 240
Openings Bars The tensions of comedy Plotting and
scheming Language of scheming Deception
21 6 Bewilderment 243
Interweaving schemes Exclusion
21 7 Comic resolution 244
Beyond bewilderment Explanation and wonder Deliverance
Finding the lost The importance of society Marriage
22 Epic 247
22 1 Origins 247
Subject matter In the beginning
22 2 Epic design 248
Epic plots Epics in miniature
22 3 Epic action 249
Deeds
22 4 War 250
Victory Defeat
22 5 The grandeur of Epic 250
History Epic range The gods Imagining Hell Humanity
22 6 Epic style 252
The opening The starting point The elevated style: diction
and syntax Epic simile Classical allusions Messengers Lists
22 7 Mock-epics 255
Parody The Rape of the Lock
23 Lyric 257
23 1 Music and poetry 257
Defining lyric Ease and fluency The communal lyric and
musical settings The language of music and the language
of poetry
23 2 Lyric and feeling 259
Modulation Love Celebration The passing of time The
natural world
24 Satire 262
24 1 A moral art 262
Classical Satire Satire Englished Original Satire As an
adjective
Contents xiii
24 2 The features of Satire 264
The art of censure A didactic art Urban and social writing
Politics Change and chance The sceptical outlook Irony
Satire and art The heroic couplet Conclusions
Romance
25 1 The world of Romance
Distant worlds Romance plots
25 2 The phases of Romance
Birth Youth The quest Temptation Withdrawal
Fulfilment
25 3 The persistence of Romance
25 4 Twentieth-century Romance
Tolkien s romance
Gothic
26 1 Gothic s historical context
Genre and history Gothic landmarks
26 2 Gothic influence 273
Atmosphere Cinema
26 3 Mock Gothic 273
26 4 Gothic conventions and features 274
Horror and terror Locations Atmosphere Gothic language
26 5 Gothic themes 275
Social and political Gothic Creation Violence Women
26 6 Gothic plots 277
Digressive plots Characters
27 Pastoral 278
27 1 Pastoral: English and classical 278
Shepherds A genre and a mode The eclogue, the georgic,
the idyll Arcadia
27 2 Pastoral conventions 279
The passionate shepherd Setting Season Art Love Security
27 3 Political Pastoral 281
Big estates Pastoral and economics
27 4 Anti-pastoral 282
Undermining a genre Pastoral parody
27 5 Twentieth-century Pastoral 283
Part Five Context 285
28 The Past 287
28 1 A foreign country 287
The pastness of the past Scholarship Help from dictionaries
Background
28 2 Many Pasts 289
Many histories Knowing backgrounds
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29 Religion and the Bible 291
29 1 A cultural heritage 291
Shakespeare and the Bible Biblical imagery in recent
authors Students
29 2 Bible stories 292
Rewriting the Bible The Bible as judgement
29 3 Biblical variations 293
Finding the lost Blake s re-workings Ironic use of the Bible
29 4 Parables and journeys 295
Parables Journeys Self-discovery Temptation
29 5 Biblical words and images 296
Shakespeare s words Biblical images in English literature
The twentieth century and the Bible
30 Classical Civilization 299
30 1 The Classics and education 299
Schools, universities and the library Translation
30 2 Classical figures 300
Heroes Greek heroes Difficulties with heroes Chivalry
Reservations about the heroic The hero king
30 3 Classical women 303
Helen of Troy
30 4 Myths 304
The durability of myths The appeal of myths Myths and
ideas Extending myths
30 5 Philosophers and poets 306
Philosophy Ovid: love and transformation
30 6 Traditions of writing 308
Subjects and topics Form and genre Ideas and outlooks
Attitudes The Classics at work Symbols A conflict
31 Books and Ideas 312
31 1 Referring to other authors 312
Quotation Allusion
31 2 Nature 313
Words and meanings Nature Controversy over nature:
KingLear (1605) Other meanings
31 3 Order 316
An orderly world The language of order Order in
Shakespeare The imagery of order Discord Political
order Characters and disorder
31 4 Fortune 319
Ups and downs The wheel of fortune Fortune and Tragedy
Joking about fortune Talking about Fortune
31 5 Freedom 322
Choice and determinism The will The stars Natural history
Fatalists
Contents xv
32 The Arts 325
32 1 Literature, the arts and context 325
A point about study
32 2 Painting 326
Painting and writing Writers, painters and landscape Vistas
Details Ways of seeing Talk of landscape Art and literary
presentation Twentieth-century art Surrealism Pictures in
literature
32 3 Architecture 332
Invisible buildings Making architecture central Classical
and Gothic Dickens and architectural debate
32 4 Music 334
The feelings of an age Romanticism and music Opera and
ballet Music and culture
33 Society 338
33 1 Class 338
Marriage and class Money
33 2 Love, marriage and families 340
Betrothal Correspondence Living together Family life
33 3 Town and country 342
Urban life Economics Outcasts Revolution and war
33 4 Technology 345
Agricultural change Industry Transport Timetables
Part Six Interpretation 349
34 Discovering Meanings 351
34 1 Internal and external interpretation 351
Two ways of looking Theories
34 2 Words on the page 352
Questions and answers
34 3 Close reading 353
What words actually say Making links Contrasts
How it is said Significance Judgement Debate
35 Internal Interpretation: Narratology, Grammar and Genre 355
35 1 Narratology 355
35 2 Grammar 356
Grammar matters
35 3 Genre 357
36 Internal Interpretation: Formalism 359
36 1 Treating books as art 359
36 2 Formalist critics 360
Aristotle
36 3 The Russian Formalists 360
Making strange Folk stories The limits of Formalism
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36 4 Structuralism 362
Origins: anthropology and linguistics Shapes, forms and
structures Problems with Structuralism
36 5 Deconstruction 362
French philosophy The death of the author Problems with
Deconstruction
36 6 Postmodernism 363
Free play The abolition of reality Postmodern problems
37 Theorists and Literary Features 365
37 1 Patterns and repetitions 365
Patterning in literature Repetition and meaning Repetition
and making strange
37 2 Leitmotifs 366
Defining movement, articulating themes Looking forwards
and backwards
37 3 Binary opposites 367
Pairs
37 4 Parallels and polarities 368
Making sense of elements Deciding on features
37 5 Silences 369
Interpreting silences
37 6 Disturbances 370
Making sense of mental states
37 7 Contradictions 371
Paradox Books at odds with themselves
37 8 Unity and diversity 371
Unified works Diversity reconsidered
37 9 Playing with language 372
Language games Linguistic play
38 Debating Interpretations 374
38 1 The value of internal interpretation 374
Ordinary reading Problems with internal interpretation
38 2 Is internal interpretation sufficient? 375
Do books stand alone? Back to history
39 External Interpretation: Social 376
39 1 Beliefs 376
What matters to us Ideology
39 2 Marxist interpretation 377
History and society Karl Marx A theory of history The
economic basis of society Marx and literature Using Marx
39 3 Money 379
Old and new wealth Marriage and money
39 4 Work 380
Silence about work
Contents xvii
39 5 Trade 381
Exchange Exchange in literature Merchants Communication
as exchange
39 6 Material goods 383
Marx and material objects Characters and material goods
Commodities
39 7 Social class 384
Chaucer and class What makes class Class and space
Class and education Class and culture
39 8 Power 387
The powerless Kings, power and the powerless
40 External Interpretation: Feminism 389
40 1 The status of women in life and literature 389
40 2 Doubles 390
Moral pairings Temperamental pairings Doubles and
female authors
40 3 Images of women 391
Defined roles The female Bildungsroman
40 4 Names 392
Name and identity Uncertainty about names
40 5 Virgins 393
Virgin or mistress? A cult Maiden no more Brides
40 6 Mothers 394
Marginalized mothers Narrative opportunities Absent
mothers Jane Austen and the later nineteenth century
Mother substitutes Beyond the last page Icons of
motherhood Motherhood and judgement Madonnas
Twentieth-century mothers
40 7 Women in love 398
Courtship Active heroines Consent or refusal Marriage
40 8 Goddesses 399
Saints Diana The mythic dimension
40 9 Female aspirations 401
Women at work A double trajectory
40 10 The afflictions of woman 402
Patriarchy Resisting patriarchy
40 11 Images of woman 403
The ideal woman Heart and head The shrew Madness
40 12 Language 405
Female language? Silencing women
41 External Interpretation: Psychological 407
41 1 The soul 407
Traditional ideas Freud Freud and Greece Jung The
familiarity of psychiatry Psychological interpretation and
other forms of criticism Literature and psychoanalysis
xviii Contents
41 2 Dreams 409
Interpreting dreams Dream literature Dream-like literature
Dreams in literature Convincing dreams?
41 3 Imagery and archetypes 411
Imagery and the mind Archetypes Archetypes in romantic
literature Archetypal configurations The mind as main
subject Freud and symbols
41 4 Character and trauma 413
Problems with Freud Observation and explanation
Significant behaviour Unusual attractions Split personalities
Books and Freudian understanding Alternatives to Freud
41 5 Myths and mothers 416
The renewal of mythology: Oedipus
42 External Interpretation: Ideas 418
42 1 Other theories 418
Religion Lesbian and gay interpretation Postcolonial
interpretation
43 Issues in Interpretation 420
43 1 Several approaches 420
43 2 Evaluation 421
A difficult challenge The fact of evaluation Recognizing
value Valued features
43 3 Intention 422
43 4 Is all reading interpretation? 423
Starting with questions Not needing interpretation
Distinguishing between determined and open meanings
Part Seven Themes 427
44 The Scope of Literature 429
44 1 A fair field full of folk 429
Dream poems Our world The field of literature
44 2 Workings and wanderings 430
Themes Traditional themes
45 The Living World 432
45 1 Night 432
Light out of darkness Writing about the night Chaos and
night Night, sleep and darkness Irrational fears Night and
crisis The night and love The night poem The mistakes of a
night Black night
45 2 Sunrise and sunset 437
Dawn New dawn, new hope Dawn and dedication
Aubade Sunrise in a strange world Sunset The evening
and rest The anonymity of evening The coming of night
Contents xix
45 3 The moon and the sun 441
The moon The sun The problem for contemporary writers
The sun and the moon in the Bible and the Classical tradition
The sun and kingship The power of the sun The mythology
of the moon The Moon and the imagination Consequences
The stars
46 The Four Seasons 446
46 1 Writing about the seasons 446
The character of the seasons The labours of the months
46 2 Seasonal myths 447
Popular pictures
47 The Earth 448
47 1 Learning to look at landscape 448
Landscape histories The sublime Recognizing the
sublime
47 2 Water 449
Tales of the sea Human endurance The elemental and the
primitive The sea as metaphor
47 3 People and woods 451
The organic world Woods Improvement Woodlanders - a
way of life
47 4 Trees and plants 454
Trees in literature
47 5 The garden 455
Retreat and repose Nature and art An emblem of the state
The abandoned garden Eden
48 Aspects of Nature 459
48 1 Landscape and literature 459
History in the landscape Fields Landscape gardening
Enclosure Nature despoiled What writers assume
48 2 Figures in the landscape 462
People pictured Pathetic fallacy, personification and mental
landscape
48 3 Animals 463
Attitudes to animals Anthropomorphism A world apart
49 Ideas about Nature 466
49 1 The work of God 466
The word nature Created by God Design
49 2 Darwin 468
50 Buildings 470
50 1 Houses 470
Occupying space
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50 2 Doors and windows 471
Doors Windows Stairs Architects
50 3 Settlements 473
The small community The literary uses of towns and cities
Re-making places
51 Mortality 476
51 1 Creatures of time 476
Responding to death
51 2 Inmemoriam 476
Epitaphs At the graveside
52 The Human Mind and Society 478
52 1 The formation of minds 478
Growth The work of memory: then and now The effects of
psychology
52 2 The Passions, the Virtues and the Deadly Sins 479
Traditional qualities and values The Seven
Deadly Sins
52 3 Doubling characters 480
Theme and design
52 4 The inner world 481
Sleep Emotions
52 5 The self and the world 482
Human society Families Hierarchies Work Leisure Familiar
objects
53 Love 485
53 1 The game of love 485
Holiday Inventing the rules Courtly love
53 2 Petrarch 487
Love at first sight and the ideal beloved Conventions of the
beloved The lover The merciless beauty Serving a lady
Petrarchan conventions at work
54 War 492
54 1 Sources and influences 492
Classical literature Traditions of war writing
54 2 The First Wo rid War 493
The national imagination The two poles of First World War
writing :
54 3 Love and war 494
Lovers and war The love of comrades Love in the time
of war The language of love and war
54 4 War and sport 495
Contents xxi
54 5 War and religion 496
An uneasy relationship Death and sacrifice Religion in
First World War literature Ritual
54 6 War and the countryside 498
A contrast The destruction of a landscape Incentive and
consolation
Glossary 501
Suggestions for Further Reading 513
General Index 514
Index of Authors and Works 520
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Mastering
English Literature
Third Edition
Richard Gil
macmillan
© 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants
May be used for personal purporses only or by
libraries associated to dandelon com network
Contents
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction xxv
Hints on reading Reading with understanding Making notes
Some 'dos and don'ts' of note-making As you study Preparation
and follow-up Making up your mind Essays Coursework
and long essays Revision Examinations
Part One The novel 1
1 Stories 3
1 1 Popularity 3
A best-seller The popularity of novels Talking about novels
1 2 Human identity 4
Stories in our lives Our lives in our stories
1 3 Thinking about stories 5
Fiction Fictions and lies Written and read Writing about novels
The elements of novels Literary study
2 Characters 9
2 1 Responding to characters 9
Engaged by characters
• 2 2 Characters, readers and authors 10
Knowledge Readers at work Characters, characterization
and persons
2 3 Language and the making of characters 11
Said and made Language revealing character The life of
reason The language of value The moral ambiguity of fluency
Declarations The mannerisms of speech Class and dialect
2 4 Dialogue 15
Everyday dialogue Dialogue and everyday speech The
presentation of speech The shaping of speech The politics
of conversation The revelation of character Dialogue and
theme
2 5 Last words 17
2 6 Language about characters 18
Physical language Mental and moral language The power
of character language
Contents v
2 7 Growing up 20
From childhood to adulthood The Bildungsroman Places
Authority figures Sexual awakening Choices
2 8 The contexts of characters 22
Gender Culture and nationality
2 9 Character range 24
Growth Open and closed characters
3 Narration 26
31A tale that is told 26
Tales and tellers Tales and knowledge
3 2 Narration, knowledge and characters 27
What readers can know Human responses Looking into minds
3 3 The tellers of tales 28
Authors and narrators Author Narrator
3 4 The grammar of narration: first person 30
Two types of first-person narrator Our view of life
First-person narration and knowledge The position of the
reader Security Growth Levels of awareness Unreliability
Moral understanding
3 5 The grammar of narration: third person 33
Telling and showing What narrators know Omniscient
narrators Single cases of privileged access Direct free style
Tense
3 6 External narration 37
3 7 Readers and problems 38
The authority of the reader Naive narrators Disagreeing
with narrators Multiple narrations Epistolary novels
Metafiction
3 8 Irony 40
Words and truth Words and meaning Intention and outcome
Appearance and reality Double irony
4 Plot 43
4 1 Plots and stories 43
Plots and knowledge
4 2 Beginnings 43
The exposition
4 3 Disjunction 44
Breaks, breaches, interruptions
4 4 Trajectory 45
Plots and aims Plot movement Parallels Plots as journeys
4 5 Features of plot movement 47
Looking backwards and forwards Discoveries Reversal
4 6 Plot incidents and materials 48
Thematic strands -Parabolic moments Re-using plots
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4 7 Endings 49
Neat conclusions The climax Forms of climax and closure
Denouement and resolution
4 8 The short story 51
Economy Narrative Themes and epiphanies Types of
short story
5 Settings 55
5 1 What readers remember 55
The enjoyment of settings
5 2 The functions of settings 56
Setting and action Setting and mood Setting and plot
movement Setting and the situation of characters Setting
and the author's outlook
6 The Scope of the Novel 59
6 1 Fictional worlds 59
Novels and the world Making worlds
6 2 Realism 60
Naturalism
6 3 Departing from realism 61
Time Fantasy and magic realism Mixed worlds
6 4 The personal and the public 62
Social and political readings
6 5 Social issues 63
Thematic locations Urban and rural Understanding
society The condition of England
6 6 Money 65
The uncertain treatment of wealth Money and plot movement
Money and morality Money and conclusions
6 7 Debate 67
The need to talk
6 8 Education and codes of behaviour 67
Self-improvement Social models Crime Crime and resolution
6 9 Domestic life 69
The family Brothers and sisters
Part Two Drama 71
7 Familiar Drama 73
7 1 Theatre-going 73
Television and film Real life Art Television, films and drama
7 2 Drama and the dramatic 74
Excess The strange and the wonderful Human extremes
The extreme and the everyday
7 3 Outlandish action: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 76
Vast schemes Language that fits the action Horrible
events Deception Emotional intensity
Contents vii
7 4 Two desires: love and power 78
Passion Other kinds of loving Appetite Killing the king
Love and power together The image of the Tarquins
Madness
7 5 Provocation 83
A political experience A mirror Questioning the audience
Controversy Controversy in performance and profession
Political control Shakespeare and Elizabeth I
8 The Language of the Stage 86
8 1 Verse and prose: mixing language 86
The conventions of dramatic language Blank verse Diction
The uses of prose
8 2 Verse and prose at work 88
Social distinctions Kings and verse Emotional
emphasis Verse and ideas Madness and prose Prose,
verse and dramatic function
8 3 Dramatic language 91
The distinctive feature The actions of actors Language
and specific actions Language and authority Language
and indication Language and grouping Language and
emotional states Language and theatricality
8 4 Monologue 95
The Chorus Soliloquy Public soliloquies The private
soliloquy Soliloquies and truth The self who speaks
The aside
8 5 Dialogue 98
Declaration and response The contours of dialogue
'Thou' and 'you'
8 6 Wordplay 100
8 7 Common speech and bawdy 101
Common speech Bawdy
8 8 Ideas and issues 102
Thematic words and images Plots and themes Themes
and action
9 Action 104
9 1 Plot and actions 104
How plots begin Scene after scene Sub-plots
9 2 Expectation, pace, climax and close 105
Expectation Pace Climax Close
9 3 Ends and beginnings 107
Unities
9 4 Role-playing , 108
Roles and society Theatrical self-awareness
9 5 Present and past 109
Twentieth-century treatments of the past
9 6 Transformation 110
viii Contents
Thematic actions
Image and actuality Emblematic actions Characteristic
actions
Community and nation
Society in twentieth-century drama History
Props
Few or many Props and themes
Excessive action
Burlesque Farce Plays within plays
Stage competition
A theatrical imagining
Characters
10 1 Characters and language
Verbal mannerisms Pope on language and character
Characters on themselves Characters talking about other
characters
10 2 Characters contrasted 118
Leading characters contrasted Thematic contrast
10 3 Stock characters 119
10 4 Characters and functions 120
Symbolic characters Characters as mouthpieces of
dialogue Character and plot function
10 5 Characters and trust 121
What can be questioned
11 Audience 122
11 1 Knowledge 122
11 2 Disguise 123
The freedom of disguise Impersonation Cross-dressing
11 3 Deception 125
Misinformation Misreading Misleading role-play
11 4 Overlooking, overhearing 126
11 5 Framed action 126
11 6 Audiences and theatrical traditions 127
Theatrical history Distance
11 7 Laughter 128
Expectation Like machines Proportion Limits Purpose
12 Watching and Studying 131
12 1 The theatre of the imagination 131
Performability Imagining performances
12 2 Types of stage 132
Shakespeare's stage The proscenium arch
12 3 Characters on stage 133
Silent characters
12 4 Design 134
Scenery Costume Settings Lighting Smells
Contents ix
12 5 Actors and acting 135
Age Size Voice
12 6 Centralizing women 137
Women in Shakespeare
12 7 Music, dance, songs, ghosts, fights 137
Music Melodrama Songs Dances Communal celebration
Dance and plots Dances and the close of plays Fights
Ghosts Theme and atmosphere
Part Three Poetry 143
13 Valuing, Performing, Hearing 145
13 1 Immediacy 145
Directness and force
13 2 An ancient art 146
Poetry and religion The Muse
13 3 Poets as artists 148
Nature and art
13 4 Reading and hearing 149
Questions about reading Tone and voice Hearing,
overhearing and the public
13 5 Persona 150
Dramatic monologues
13 6 Fluency 151
14 What Poets Make 152
14 1 Story-telling 152
Chaucer's tales Introducing the characters First moves New
character The plan Sympathy The plan in operation
Climaxes Judgements The issue of narrators
14 2 Ballads 155
Traditional ballads The literary ballad Romantic ballads
Victorian stories
14 3 Worlds 157
Faery lands Literary worlds Dream worlds Twentieth-century
worlds New worlds Re-created worlds Familiar worlds Past
and present
15 What Poets Think 162
15 1 Poets as thinkers 162
Taking poetry seriously Dealing with big issues Religion
Re-making thought
15 2 Experience and thought 164
General statements Unfamiliar views Titles Thought and
language
15 3 Selves 166
Discovering the self Autobiography'
15 4 Art 167
Allusion Art about art
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16 What Poets Do: Words and Meanings 169
16 1 Meaning and grammar 169
16 2 Nouns 169
Common nouns Proper nouns Abstract nouns Pronouns
16 3 Verbs 171
Moods Infinitives Transitive and intransitive verbs The
participle Delayed verbs The main verb
16 4 Modifiers 174
Adjectives Compound adjectives Adverbs Articles
16 5 Other parts of speech 176
Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections Negation Double
negatives
16 6 Words and their meanings 178
Denotations and connotations Range of meanings Value
words Diction Complexity and ambiguity Verbal play
Multiple meanings Symbols and emblems Imagery: clarity
and evocation Experiment Critical language Simile
Metaphor Conceit Tenor and vehicle
17 Poetic Shapes and Sounds 185
17 1 Line 185
Line endings Line length Caesura
17 2 Stanza form 187
The couplet Three-line stanzas Quatrains Sonnets
Mechanical and organic form Free verse
17 3 Rhyme 190
Rhyme schemes Interlaced and enclosed rhymes Rhymes
and syllables Resolution Harmony Intensification through
rhyme Rhyme and meaning Comic poetry Para-rhymes
17 4 Rhythm 194
Pronunciation Beat Metre Variation The contribution of
rhythm Writing about rhythm Learning to hear
17 5 Sounds 198
Cadence Alliteration Assonance Texture Talking about
texture Timbre Movement, music, enactment
18 The Work of Poets
18 1 Practical criticism
18 2 Questions about whole books: what kinds of poems?
The world about us
18 3 What forms?
Lyric and traditional forms
18 4 What words?
Empirical language
18 5 What imagery?
Everyday images
18 6 What tone?
Two voices
Contents xi
18 7 What personas? 208
Versions of the self
18 8 What attitudes? 209
The outsider
18 9 What subjects? 210
England
18 10 What thought? 211
Poignancy and climax
Part Four Genre 213
19 Classification 215
19 1 Butterflies, birds and books 215
Classifying books The problem of classifying books Genre
Not an exact science Not prescriptive Threads and families
19 2 Conventions ' 217
The conventions of films The durability of conventions
Varieties of convention Public agreements Accepting
conventions Conventions and interpretation Conventions
and judgement
20 Tragedy 221
20 1 The place of Tragedy 221
A rare and broad genre
20 2 Philosophical issues 221
Aristotle
20 3 Tragedy and judgement 223
Art and belief
20 4 The tragic sense of life 224
Tragedy and Christianity
20 5 Hero 225
Characters apart Energy Will Authority Seriousness
Nobility Imagination Courage Grandeur
20 6 Fall 227
The inner fall The public fall
20 7 Suffering 229
Kinds of suffering Suffering, isolation and exclusion
The fall of kings Moral outrage
20 8 Faults 231
Laws, limits and being wrong Choosing wrong Flaws,
hubris, insolence and bravado Being one's own judge
Disdaining others Wilful display
20 9 Waste, knowledge and catharsis 234
Catharsis Communal catharsis
21 Comedy 236
21 1 Comic features 236
Comic variety Contemporary settings
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21 2 Characters and plots 237
A big cast Complex plots Plot functions
21 3 Play 238
A ludic art
21 4 Comic plotting 239
Comic conventions Enjoying conventions Conventions
and endings
21 5 Beginning comic plots 240
Openings Bars The tensions of comedy Plotting and
scheming Language of scheming Deception
21 6 Bewilderment 243
Interweaving schemes Exclusion
21 7 Comic resolution 244
Beyond bewilderment Explanation and wonder Deliverance
Finding the lost The importance of society Marriage
22 Epic 247
22 1 Origins 247
Subject matter In the beginning
22 2 Epic design 248
Epic plots Epics in miniature
22 3 Epic action 249
Deeds
22 4 War 250
Victory Defeat
22 5 The grandeur of Epic 250
History Epic range The gods Imagining Hell Humanity
22 6 Epic style 252
The opening The starting point The elevated style: diction
and syntax Epic simile Classical allusions Messengers Lists
22 7 Mock-epics 255
Parody The Rape of the Lock
23 Lyric 257
23 1 Music and poetry 257
Defining lyric Ease and fluency The communal lyric and
musical settings The language of music and the language
of poetry
23 2 Lyric and feeling 259
Modulation Love Celebration The passing of time The
natural world
24 Satire 262
24 1 A moral art 262
Classical Satire Satire 'Englished' Original Satire As an
adjective
Contents xiii
24 2 The features of Satire 264
The art of censure A didactic art Urban and social writing
Politics Change and chance The sceptical outlook Irony
Satire and art The heroic couplet Conclusions
Romance
25 1 The world of Romance
Distant worlds Romance plots
25 2 The phases of Romance
Birth Youth The quest Temptation Withdrawal
Fulfilment
25 3 The persistence of Romance
25 4 Twentieth-century Romance
Tolkien's romance
Gothic
26 1 Gothic's historical context
Genre and history Gothic landmarks
26 2 Gothic influence 273
Atmosphere Cinema
26 3 Mock Gothic 273
26 4 Gothic conventions and features 274
Horror and terror Locations Atmosphere Gothic language
26 5 Gothic themes 275
Social and political Gothic Creation Violence Women
26 6 Gothic plots 277
Digressive plots Characters
27 Pastoral 278
27 1 Pastoral: English and classical 278
Shepherds A genre and a mode The eclogue, the georgic,
the idyll Arcadia
27 2 Pastoral conventions 279
The passionate shepherd Setting Season Art Love Security
27 3 Political Pastoral 281
Big estates Pastoral and economics
27 4 Anti-pastoral 282
Undermining a genre Pastoral parody
27 5 Twentieth-century Pastoral 283
Part Five Context 285
28 The Past 287
28 1 A foreign country 287
The pastness of the past Scholarship Help from dictionaries
Background
28 2 Many Pasts 289
Many histories Knowing backgrounds
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29 Religion and the Bible 291
29 1 A cultural heritage 291
Shakespeare and the Bible Biblical imagery in recent
authors Students
29 2 Bible stories 292
Rewriting the Bible The Bible as judgement
29 3 Biblical variations 293
Finding the lost Blake's re-workings Ironic use of the Bible
29 4 Parables and journeys 295
Parables Journeys Self-discovery Temptation
29 5 Biblical words and images 296
Shakespeare's words Biblical images in English literature
The twentieth century and the Bible
30 Classical Civilization 299
30 1 The Classics and education 299
Schools, universities and the library Translation
30 2 Classical figures 300
Heroes Greek heroes Difficulties with heroes Chivalry
Reservations about the heroic The hero king
30 3 Classical women 303
Helen of Troy
30 4 Myths 304
The durability of myths The appeal of myths Myths and
ideas Extending myths
30 5 Philosophers and poets 306
Philosophy Ovid: love and transformation
30 6 Traditions of writing 308
Subjects and topics Form and genre Ideas and outlooks
Attitudes The Classics at work Symbols A conflict
31 Books and Ideas 312
31 1 Referring to other authors 312
Quotation Allusion
31 2 Nature 313
Words and meanings Nature Controversy over nature:
KingLear (1605) Other meanings
31 3 Order 316
An orderly world The language of order Order in
Shakespeare The imagery of order Discord Political
order Characters and disorder
31 4 Fortune 319
Ups and downs The wheel of fortune Fortune and Tragedy
Joking about fortune Talking about Fortune
31 5 Freedom 322
Choice and determinism The will The stars Natural history
Fatalists
Contents xv
32 The Arts 325
32 1 Literature, the arts and context 325
A point about study
32 2 Painting 326
Painting and writing Writers, painters and landscape Vistas
Details Ways of seeing Talk of landscape Art and literary
presentation Twentieth-century art Surrealism Pictures in
literature
32 3 Architecture 332
Invisible buildings Making architecture central Classical
and Gothic Dickens and architectural debate
32 4 Music 334
The feelings of an age Romanticism and music Opera and
ballet Music and culture
33 Society 338
33 1 Class 338
Marriage and class Money
33 2 Love, marriage and families 340
Betrothal Correspondence Living together Family life
33 3 Town and country 342
Urban life Economics Outcasts Revolution and war
33 4 Technology 345
Agricultural change Industry Transport Timetables
Part Six Interpretation 349
34 Discovering Meanings 351
34 1 Internal and external interpretation 351
Two ways of looking Theories
34 2 Words on the page 352
Questions and answers
34 3 Close reading 353
What words actually say Making links Contrasts
How it is said Significance Judgement Debate
35 Internal Interpretation: Narratology, Grammar and Genre 355
35 1 Narratology 355
35 2 Grammar 356
Grammar matters
35 3 Genre 357
36 Internal Interpretation: Formalism 359
36 1 Treating books as art 359
36 2 Formalist critics 360
Aristotle
36 3 The Russian Formalists 360
Making strange Folk stories The limits of Formalism
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36 4 Structuralism 362
Origins: anthropology and linguistics Shapes, forms and
structures Problems with Structuralism
36 5 Deconstruction 362
French philosophy The death of the author Problems with
Deconstruction
36 6 Postmodernism 363
Free play The abolition of reality Postmodern problems
37 Theorists and Literary Features 365
37 1 Patterns and repetitions 365
Patterning in literature Repetition and meaning Repetition
and making strange
37 2 Leitmotifs 366
Defining movement, articulating themes Looking forwards
and backwards
37 3 Binary opposites 367
Pairs
37 4 Parallels and polarities 368
Making sense of elements Deciding on features
37 5 Silences 369
Interpreting silences
37 6 Disturbances 370
Making sense of mental states
37 7 Contradictions 371
Paradox Books at odds with themselves
37 8 Unity and diversity 371
Unified works Diversity reconsidered
37 9 Playing with language 372
Language games Linguistic play
38 Debating Interpretations 374
38 1 The value of internal interpretation 374
Ordinary reading Problems with internal interpretation
38 2 Is internal interpretation sufficient? 375
Do books stand alone? Back to history
39 External Interpretation: Social 376
39 1 Beliefs 376
What matters to us Ideology
39 2 Marxist interpretation 377
History and society Karl Marx A theory of history The
economic basis of society Marx and literature Using Marx
39 3 Money 379
Old and new wealth Marriage and money
39 4 Work 380
Silence about work
Contents xvii
39 5 Trade 381
Exchange Exchange in literature Merchants Communication
as exchange
39 6 Material goods 383
Marx and material objects Characters and material goods
Commodities
39 7 Social class 384
Chaucer and class What makes class Class and space
Class and education Class and culture
39 8 Power 387
The powerless Kings, power and the powerless
40 External Interpretation: Feminism 389
40 1 The status of women in life and literature 389
40 2 Doubles 390
Moral pairings Temperamental pairings Doubles and
female authors
40 3 Images of women 391
Defined roles The female Bildungsroman
40 4 Names 392
Name and identity Uncertainty about names
40 5 Virgins 393
Virgin or mistress? A cult Maiden no more Brides
40 6 Mothers 394
Marginalized mothers Narrative opportunities Absent
mothers Jane Austen and the later nineteenth century
Mother substitutes Beyond the last page Icons of
motherhood Motherhood and judgement Madonnas
Twentieth-century mothers
40 7 Women in love 398
Courtship Active heroines Consent or refusal Marriage
40 8 Goddesses 399
Saints Diana The mythic dimension
40 9 Female aspirations 401
Women at work A double trajectory
40 10 The afflictions of woman 402
Patriarchy Resisting patriarchy
40 11 Images of woman 403
The ideal woman Heart and head The shrew Madness
40 12 Language 405
Female language? Silencing women
41 External Interpretation: Psychological 407
41 1 The soul 407
Traditional ideas Freud Freud and Greece Jung The
familiarity of psychiatry Psychological interpretation and
other forms of criticism Literature and psychoanalysis
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41 2 Dreams 409
Interpreting dreams Dream literature Dream-like literature
Dreams in literature Convincing dreams?
41 3 Imagery and archetypes 411
Imagery and the mind Archetypes Archetypes in romantic
literature Archetypal configurations The mind as main
subject Freud and symbols
41 4 Character and trauma 413
Problems with Freud Observation and explanation
Significant behaviour Unusual attractions Split personalities
Books and Freudian understanding Alternatives to Freud
41 5 Myths and mothers 416
The renewal of mythology: Oedipus
42 External Interpretation: Ideas 418
42 1 Other theories 418
Religion Lesbian and gay interpretation Postcolonial
interpretation
43 Issues in Interpretation 420
43 1 Several approaches 420
43 2 Evaluation 421
A difficult challenge The fact of evaluation Recognizing
value Valued features
43 3 Intention 422
43 4 Is all reading interpretation? 423
Starting with questions Not needing interpretation
Distinguishing between determined and open meanings
Part Seven Themes 427
44 The Scope of Literature 429
44 1 A fair field full of folk 429
Dream poems Our world The field of literature
44 2 Workings and wanderings 430
Themes Traditional themes
45 The Living World 432
45 1 Night 432
Light out of darkness Writing about the night Chaos and
night Night, sleep and darkness Irrational fears Night and
crisis The night and love The night poem The mistakes of a
night Black night
45 2 Sunrise and sunset 437
Dawn New dawn, new hope Dawn and dedication
Aubade Sunrise in a strange world Sunset The evening
and rest The anonymity of evening The coming of night
Contents xix
45 3 The moon and the sun 441
The moon The sun The problem for contemporary writers
The sun and the moon in the Bible and the Classical tradition
The sun and kingship The power of the sun The mythology
of the moon The Moon and the imagination Consequences
The stars
46 The Four Seasons 446
46 1 Writing about the seasons 446
The character of the seasons The labours of the months
46 2 Seasonal myths 447
Popular pictures
47 The Earth 448
47 1 Learning to look at landscape 448
Landscape histories The sublime Recognizing the
sublime
47 2 Water 449
Tales of the sea Human endurance The elemental and the
primitive The sea as metaphor
47 3 People and woods 451
The organic world Woods Improvement Woodlanders - a
way of life
47 4 Trees and plants 454
Trees in literature
47 5 The garden 455
Retreat and repose Nature and art An emblem of the state
The abandoned garden Eden
48 Aspects of Nature 459
48 1 Landscape and literature 459
History in the landscape Fields Landscape gardening
Enclosure Nature despoiled What writers assume
48 2 Figures in the landscape 462
People pictured Pathetic fallacy, personification and mental
landscape
48 3 Animals 463
Attitudes to animals Anthropomorphism A world apart
49 Ideas about Nature 466
49 1 The work of God 466
The word 'nature' Created by God Design
49 2 Darwin 468
50 Buildings 470
50 1 Houses 470
Occupying space
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50 2 Doors and windows 471
Doors Windows Stairs Architects
50 3 Settlements 473
The small community The literary uses of towns and cities
Re-making places
51 Mortality 476
51 1 Creatures of time 476
Responding to death
51 2 Inmemoriam 476
Epitaphs At the graveside
52 The Human Mind and Society 478
52 1 The formation of minds 478
Growth The work of memory: then and now The effects of
psychology
52 2 The Passions, the Virtues and the Deadly Sins 479
Traditional qualities and values The Seven
Deadly Sins
52 3 Doubling characters 480
Theme and design
52 4 The inner world 481
Sleep Emotions
52 5 The self and the world 482
Human society Families Hierarchies Work Leisure Familiar
objects
53 Love 485
53 1 The game of love 485
Holiday Inventing the rules Courtly love
53 2 Petrarch 487
Love at first sight and the ideal beloved Conventions of the
beloved The lover The merciless beauty Serving a lady
Petrarchan conventions at work
54 War 492
54 1 Sources and influences 492
Classical literature Traditions of war writing
54 2 The First Wo rid War 493
The national imagination The two poles of First World War
writing :
54 3 Love and war 494
Lovers and war The love of comrades Love in the time
of war The language of love and war
54 4 War and sport 495
Contents xxi
54 5 War and religion 496
An uneasy relationship Death and sacrifice Religion in
First World War literature Ritual
54 6 War and the countryside 498
A contrast The destruction of a landscape Incentive and
consolation
Glossary 501
Suggestions for Further Reading 513
General Index 514
Index of Authors and Works 520 |
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