Against the Norm: Exception as a Disruptive Force in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier (1918)
In The Return of the Soldier (1918),Rebecca West questions the predominance of conformity in a society stifled by norms, codes and class, as Chris Baldry, a soldier suffering from shell-shock, struggles to recover his memory. Focusing first on the tensions between the normal and the exception, a par...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/8067 |