Publications

Authors:

Pes, Annalisa

Title:

The Boredom and Futility of War in Patrick White's Fiction

Year:

2016

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

LE SIMPLEGADI

ISSN of journal:

1824-5226

N° Volume:

XIV

Number or Folder:

15, April 2016

Page numbers:

65-73

Keyword:

Patrick White, War, After Alep

Short description of contents:

This article investigates the representation of war in terms of uselessness and waste in the fiction of Patrick White, with a particular emphasis on the short story “After Alep”, written in 1945 when the writer was enrolled in the RAF as an Intelligence Officer. By analysing the story in the light of White’s approach to the war as to “the most horrifying and wasteful period” of his life (Marr 1992: 493), the article attempts to demonstrate how the narrative devices used by White contribute to demythologize the rhetoric of the war and of war heroes in a way that may be instrumental in conveying a message of peace out of the ultimate sense of futility transmitted by any war.

Web page:

http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2016/Simplegadi_15_2016_Pes.pdf

Product ID:

92080

Handle IRIS:

11562/944296

Last Modified:

October 19, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Pes, Annalisa, The Boredom and Futility of War in Patrick White's Fiction «LE SIMPLEGADI» , vol. XIV , n. 15, April 2016 , 2016 , pp. 65-73

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