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“There Is Great Unrest”: Some Reflections On Emotion And Memory In Julian Barnes’S Nothing To Be Frightened Of And The Sense Of An Ending

“There Is Great Unrest”: Some Reflections On Emotion And Memory In Julian Barnes’S Nothing To Be... Prague Journal of English Studies Volume 1, No. 1, 2012 ISSN: 1804-8722 is paper responds to the perception that postmodern narratives which are formally complex might be less emotionally involving than other areas of literature. It considers that perception in the context of a discussion of the relation between memory and affect in English literature and culture, referring to stereotypical constructions and counter-constructions of English reserve and of its representation in both canonical and contemporary (and postmodern) English writing. In its argument, the paper refers initially to contrasting concerns arising from the work of critics like Eliot, Richards, Leavis, Edmundson and Belsey but focusing its attention more particularly on Julian Barnes's memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) and his novel e Sense of an Ending (2011). From that scrutiny of Barnes's work, a number of insights emerge into the complex relations between memory, emotion, postmodernism and Englishness. is paper considers whether there is any incongruity between the ingenious narrative architectures and metafictional sophistication of postmodernist fiction and the prospect of emotion in the raw. Seeking a case-study where an understated manner with poignant matter might prove revealing, it finds Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Prague Journal of English Studies de Gruyter

“There Is Great Unrest”: Some Reflections On Emotion And Memory In Julian Barnes’S Nothing To Be Frightened Of And The Sense Of An Ending

Callus, Ivan
Prague Journal of English Studies , Volume 1 (1) – Dec 1, 2012
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Prague Journal of English Studies Volume 1, No. 1, 2012 ISSN: 1804-8722 is paper responds to the perception that postmodern narratives which are formally complex might be less emotionally involving than other areas of literature. It considers that perception in the context of a discussion of the relation between memory and affect in English literature and culture, referring to stereotypical constructions and counter-constructions of English reserve and of its representation in both canonical and contemporary (and postmodern) English writing. In its argument, the paper refers initially to contrasting concerns arising from the work of critics like Eliot, Richards, Leavis, Edmundson and Belsey but focusing its attention more particularly on Julian Barnes's memoir Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) and his novel e Sense of an Ending (2011). From that scrutiny of Barnes's work, a number of insights emerge into the complex relations between memory, emotion, postmodernism and Englishness. is paper considers whether there is any incongruity between the ingenious narrative architectures and metafictional sophistication of postmodernist fiction and the prospect of emotion in the raw. Seeking a case-study where an understated manner with poignant matter might prove revealing, it finds Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008)

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Prague Journal of English Studies – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2012

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