THE BOREDOM AND FUTILITY OF WAR IN PATRICK WHITE’S FICTION
This article investigates the representation of war in terms of uselessness and waste in the fiction of Patrick White, with a particular emphasis on the short story “After Alep”, written in 1945 when the writer was enrolled in the RAF as an Intelligence Officer. By analysing the story in the light o...
Main Author: | Annalisa Pes |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Udine
2015-11-01
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Series: | Le Simplegadi |
Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1223 |
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