The State of Exception and Exceptional States in Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Ghost Stories
In this article, I consider Elizabeth Bowen’s depiction of the impact on citizens of their changing political and legal relationship to the British state during World War II, using Agamben and Freud’s writing about wartime behaviour of the state to illuminate Bowen’s short fiction, in particular ‘Th...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Open Library of Humanities |
| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4605/ |