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Julian Barnes's 'Evermore' (1995)- the Great War and postmodern memory

5 Novembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Julian Barnes's 'Evermore' (1995) - the Great War and postmodern memory.


Trauma and Silence: history, fiction, identity.

Addressing death and the (im)possibility of eternity  (cf. among others, Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning, 1995) 

Par Barker's Regeneration (1991) - revisiting the period of the Great War through 90s fiction

29 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Par Barker's Regeneration (1991) - revisiting the period of the Great War through 90s fiction.

Reinventing the memory of historical characters, William Rivers, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, while reconstructing and revisiting the period of the 1st World War through fictional characters. 

War neurosis, the condition of women and societal transformations through historical fiction(s).

Several characteristics of the English novel's traditions and a new languages as experimented with in Jacob's Room (1922).

22 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Several characteristics of the English novel's traditions and a new languages as experimented with in Jacob's Room (1922).

Woolf and her experiments revisited.

Jacob's Room (1922) - Woolf, her new approach to the novel and her way of addressing the war and contemporary culture.

15 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Jacob's Room (1922) - Woolf, her new approach to the novel and her way of addressing the war and contemporary culture.
- The impossibility of ever getting to know anyone and the protagonist 'who' is not one

- Episodic text
- Blank spaces
- The puzzle of multiple perspectives and points of view or a 'kaleidoscopic' construction of the text
- A war without any heroes

Comparing this text to the former two novels.





Note: Critical Reviews attached as well as handed in. 

Cicely Hamilton's William an Englishman (1919)

8 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Addressing Cicely Hamilton's William an Englishman (1919)
- Heroism? and the common man
- Main Social and political tensions before the Great War: the Irish question, the female Suffrage issues and fights, industrial unrest.
- The novel as a 'suffrage novel' and / or as a 'war novel'.
- Issues of narrative point of view in the text and as compared with The Return of the Soldier.
- Cicely Hamilton as a participant and witness to the suffrage fights before the war and as someone deeply involved in the war. Differences of experience, differences of perspective.