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| Titre : | The Orphan Decade : Elizabeth Bowen’s 1930s Novels (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Anna TEEKELL, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 42 n 2 Automne-hiver 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 139-151 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s major novels of the 1930s – all of which feature orphaned protagonists – as mimetic of a decade that has often been critically “orphaned” in literary history. Bowen’s travelling orphans exemplify the problem of the political refugee in the 1930s, and her novels’ deliberately unresolved endings demonstrate an unwillingness to look into a future that seemed already foreclosed. By examining the novels of this orphan decade, in which the characters as well as the prose are simultaneously arrested and on the move, this essay offers a reassessment of Bowen’s novels’ importance to the way we read the 1930s. |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
