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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabelle Gérardin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2351