Jocelyn Brooke’s The Image of a Drawn Sword: A Paradoxical Narrative of Dislocation

This essay seeks to understand the unsettling effects of Jocelyn Brooke’s novel, The Image of a Drawn Sword (1950), on its audience. Abandoning his characteristic semi-autobiographical mode, Brooke opted for heterodiegetic narration to explore the mental, perceptual and communicative dislocations ex...

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Main Author: Catherine Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2023-03-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13255