Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘A working party'

Santanu Das (2007) has argued that the defining characteristics of first-world war poetry are the stark movement away from epic forms, and the refashioning of verse as a type of ‘missive from the trenches’, both of which shift the perspective of the reading experience from distance to proximity. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giovanelli, Marcello
Other Authors: Harrison, Chloe
Format: Book Section
Published: John Benjamins 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34032/