No ‘screaming and shrieking in the wind’: The Playfulness of Reticence in Graham Swift’s Last Orders, The Light of Day, and Tomorrow
This essay deals with the difficulty of verbalising emotion in literature. It looks at the treatment of emotion in three of Graham Swift’s novels, a treatment which consists in creating a balance between a silencing of extreme emotion and a distancing of emotion through linguistic playfulness. The a...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2350 |