Life writing, fiction and modernism in British narratives of the First World War

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Abstract

For decades, Britain's cultural memory of the First World War has been dominated by poetry, the principal literary interpretation of the war taught in schools throughout the country. This poetry, argues Max Saunders, is often autobiographic and complements the memoirs that many writers penned in trying to express their experiences of the conflict – showing a complex and fluid relationship between autobiography and narrative. What is largely marginalised in British cultural memory is the novel; yet it is perhaps in this literary form, and in the work of Ford Madox Ford above all, that the most innovative interpretations of the conflict can be found.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)106-11
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the Royal United Services Institute
Volume159
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Aug 2014

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