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