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Offers a reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the Second World War. It includes a detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh.

Literature of the 1940s War Postwar and Peace

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 30/04/2015
      ISBN13: 9780748627455, 978-0748627455
      ISBN10: 0748627456
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis
      Offers a reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the Second World War. It includes a detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh.

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