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Ian Watt
eBook - The Novel and the Wartime Critic, Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
ISBN/EAN: 9780192558510
Umbreit-Nr.: 2963479
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 272 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.11.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novel-about the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, andpsychological work that the novel accomplishes-can be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.