Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ?
Not only are Birdsong, Evermore, and Another World concerned with the Great War and its impact on survivors as well as on following generations, but the three works share a common fascination for the traces of the war. Illustrating Faulkner’s claim that « the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past », t...
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| description | Not only are Birdsong, Evermore, and Another World concerned with the Great War and its impact on survivors as well as on following generations, but the three works share a common fascination for the traces of the war. Illustrating Faulkner’s claim that « the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past », they explore the links between personal, traumatic memory, and the national, collective one. Taking as its starting point the presence in the three texts of one or several characters travelling to the battlefields years after the war to visit the cemeteries and monuments to the Missing, this paper will compare and contrast the three writers’ metasemiotic representations of these national emblems and analyze their function : do they contribute to constructing, or de-constructing the nation, itself an ideological construct ? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2e2a505e7544a698cac83fc33da91432022-12-21T18:15:38ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines1168-49172271-54442009-11-013618919810.4000/ebc.4141Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ?Claire PatinNot only are Birdsong, Evermore, and Another World concerned with the Great War and its impact on survivors as well as on following generations, but the three works share a common fascination for the traces of the war. Illustrating Faulkner’s claim that « the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past », they explore the links between personal, traumatic memory, and the national, collective one. Taking as its starting point the presence in the three texts of one or several characters travelling to the battlefields years after the war to visit the cemeteries and monuments to the Missing, this paper will compare and contrast the three writers’ metasemiotic representations of these national emblems and analyze their function : do they contribute to constructing, or de-constructing the nation, itself an ideological construct ?http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/4141Pat BarkerJulian BarnesSebastian FaulkscollectiveGreat Warideology |
| spellingShingle | Claire Patin Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? Études Britanniques Contemporaines Pat Barker Julian Barnes Sebastian Faulks collective Great War ideology |
| title | Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? |
| title_full | Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? |
| title_fullStr | Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? |
| title_short | Les mémoriaux de la Grande Guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine à travers Bird Song (S. Faulks), Evermore (J. Barnes), Another World (P. Barker) : incar- ou désincar- nation ? |
| title_sort | les memoriaux de la grande guerre dans la fiction britannique contemporaine a travers bird song s faulks evermore j barnes another world p barker incar ou desincar nation |
| topic | Pat Barker Julian Barnes Sebastian Faulks collective Great War ideology |
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