Muddy poetics: First World War poems by Helen Saunders and Mary Borden
In its appearances in English literary history, mud is associated with dirt and disgustingness, but also with vitality, insurgence and creativity. Mud in First World War poetry, however, has been most often read as figuring ontological and epistemological crisis: the taboo and the abject. Two poem...
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Routledge
2015
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