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Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910–1920

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  • © 1999

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  1. Stuart Sillars
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Language, Tradition and Silence

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    Pages 1-30

  3. Howards End and the Dislocation of Narrative

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    Pages 31-61

  4. Wilfred Owen and the Subjugation of the Poetic

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    Pages 62-92

  5. The Rainbow: Language Against Itself

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    Pages 93-124

  6. ‘The singing will never be done’: Siegfried Sassoon and the Exile of Language

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    Pages 125-154

  7. Language Beneath Words: Edward Thomas

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    Pages 155-189

  8. An Epilogue on Modernism

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    Pages 190-195

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 196-216
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This book explores key texts - Howards End , The Rainbow , and the poetry of Owen, Sassoon and Edward Thomas - to show the mingled continuation and rejection of convention as their characteristic achievement, exploring features often seen as failures. It also discusses the writing's increasing concern with the inadequacies of language, seeing it within the frame of contemporary society and deconstructive theory, and attempting to locate them in relation to high Modernism.

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'Sillars keeps admirably close to his texts, and his discussions of the poets are especially thoughtful.' - English Studies

About the author

STUART SILLARS is a writer and freelance lecturer in Cambridge. His earlier publications include Art and Survival in First World War Britain, British Romantic Art and the Second World War and Visualisation in Popular Fiction, 1860-1960, and numerous articles and contributions to collections.

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