Two Contemporary Representations of the Great War between Emotionand Irreverence: William Boyd’s and Pat Barker’s Regeneration
This article focuses on two contemporary novels that aim at reworking the traumatic past of the First World War: William Boyd’s The New Confessions (1987) and Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991). We will examine how those two novels, although in very different ways, do manage to treat the experience an...
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Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2011-12-01
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Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2351 |