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The eye in the door : a novel
It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives, the \"the eye in the door\" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society.
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From Soldier-Poet to Veteran Memoirist: Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, and the Limits of Life-Writing in Prose
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston is a key text supporting Siegfried Sassoon’s reputation as Britain’s pre-eminent Great War-writer. Critics have nevertheless reached no consensus as to whether these lightly fictionalised “memoirs” represent true accounts of Sherston’s/ Sassoon’s war or fictional constructions. They have also yet to account for the differences between the Memoirs and Sassoon’s war-poetry, and between Sherston’s stated commemorative goals and his complete account. This article dissects the Memoirs’ adaptation of Sassoon’s front-line poetics of commemoration: it reads their new application of this poetics via his compositional difficulties, his dependence upon his own wartime writings, and life-writing’s uneasy relationship to truth. As I show, Sherston has more in common with his author than Sassoon intended, but differences remain; still, his memoirs have as much right to that appellation as any other text in the language.
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Narrative, Self-Realization, and the Shape of a Life
Velleman, Maclntyre, and others have argued for the compositional view that lives can be other than equally good for the person who lives them even though they contain all and only the same moments, and that this is explained by their narrative structure. I argue instead for explanation by self-realization, partly by interpreting Siegfried Sassoon's exemplary life-narrative. I decide between the two explanations by distinguishing the various features of the radial concept of narrative, and showing, for each, either that self-realization is just as good an account, or that we should prefer the self-realization account, of the composition it is supposed to explain. I conclude that, if the shape of a life matters, it matters because some shapes are self-realizations, not because they are narratives.
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When Artists Respond: Charles Andrews's Writing Against War
Charles Andrews's Writing Against War enlists literary theory and peace studies to demonstrate how five modern British authors—Aldous Huxley, Storm Jameson, Siegfried Sassoon, Rose Macaulay, and Virginia Woolf—use the resources of their craft to engage in peace activism. Questioning the common definition of pacifism as a flat and universal term, Andrews argues that pacifism is, instead, a complex assemblage of ideas and ideals. The work traces multiple interpretations of pacifism across each of these writers' respective projects. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, historians of the interwar period, and any artist who hopes to conceive of their practice as a mode of political resistance.
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Modern Nostalgia
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work.
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Communicating Trauma: Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and W.H.R. Rivers's Psychoanalytic Method
W.H.R. Rivers was a distinguished British psychiatrist famous for treating Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen during World War I. Rivers's case studies are crucial intertexts for Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy (1991–5). Barker does not represent the war according to a trauma discourse that is ubiquitous in post-1950s British and American culture. The dominance of poststructuralist trauma theory in literary history eclipses the importance of Rivers's case studies to Barker's trilogy. Her historical fiction relies on Rivers's significant and unique revisions to the Freudian talking cure forced upon him by his personal confrontation with soldiers suffering the psychological effects of the First World War.
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Greenberg's Prose and Poetry about World War I
In her article \"Greenberg's Prose and Poetry about World War I\" Chanita Goodblatt analyses the literary response of Uri Zvi Greenberg to the war. His volume of poetry Krieg oyf der Erd--largely untranslated to English--can be read as part of a multicultural literary response to World War I, particularly in juxtaposition with the poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Goodblatt posits that a study of shared esthetic strategies and literary traditions underlines the way in which Greenberg created an \"alienated wanderer\" who witnesses and stands helpless in the face of the violence and destruction of battle, as well as that inflicted upon the civilian population.
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