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Taking Note: Text And Context In Virginia Woolf's "Mr. Bennett And Mrs. Brown", Eve Sorum
Taking Note: Text And Context In Virginia Woolf's "Mr. Bennett And Mrs. Brown", Eve Sorum
Eve C Sorum
In this article I argue that the note attached to “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” which states that it was “A paper read to the Heretics, Cambridge, on May 18, 1924," is central to our interpretation of Woolf’s essay, especially in relation to contexts that politicize, historicize, or aestheticize the text. I trace the different manifestations of "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" in order to reveal the contextual and textual ways in which Woolf and the organs in which she published directed interpretation and dealt with the essay as an aesthetic object enmeshed in history. The note will prove an …
Mourning And Moving On: Life After War In Ford Madox Ford’S The Last Post, Eve Sorum
Mourning And Moving On: Life After War In Ford Madox Ford’S The Last Post, Eve Sorum
Eve C Sorum
Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End—a story of World War I and its aftermath—is often passed over in the line-up of war literature. In part this may have to do with Ford’s method of narrating the war, which is an exercise in obliterated terrain, truncated views, and narrative gaps. Readers also criticize the final novel in the tetralogy, The Last Post (1928), as a dispiriting conclusion to an otherwise astounding sequence, and Ford himself expressed doubts about its publication. The uncertainties surrounding The Last Post reflect, I believe, the novel’s unsuccessful continuance of the narrative techniques used in the preceding …