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Ian Watt

By Marina Mackay

Ian Watt

By Marina Mackay

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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novelabout the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishescan be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2019-01-29
Publication Date:
2019-01-29
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198824998
ISBN13:
9780198824992
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
436 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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