Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920

by Stuart Sillars

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333605400
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/02/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Language, Tradition and Silence Howards End and the Dislocation of Narrative Wilfred Owen and the Subjugation of the Poetic The Rainbow : Language against Itself 'The Singing Will Never Be Done': Siegfried Sassoon and the Exile of Language Language Beneath Words: Edward Thomas An Epilogue on Modernism Notes Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

Finding the decade to be both important and confusingly diverse, Sillars (English, Cambridge U.) suggests that many features of the literature once seen as shortcomings are in fact strengths. He shows how writers simultaneously extend and refuse the conventions of their predecessors, taking examples from Sassoon, Laurence, Edward Thomas, Forster, and Wilfred Owen. He concludes by considering the texts in relation to high Modernism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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