« You don’t want to bring all that up » : logique de l’excavation dans Loving de Henry Green (1945)
Henry Green’s novel, Loving, takes place in Ireland during the Second World War, in a country house whose owners and servants are English. Kinalty Castle, deserted by men but crowded by a multitude of objects, functions as London’s double as well as its counterpoint. Even though it is far away from...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2019
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Henry Green’s novel, Loving, takes place in Ireland during the Second World War, in a country house whose owners and servants are English. Kinalty Castle, deserted by men but crowded by a multitude of objects, functions as London’s double as well as its counterpoint. Even though it is far away from the blitz, its inmates reintroduce in the mansion the very dangers they were protected from. Henry Green uses this setting to deal with notions of responsibility and guilt, commitment and withdrawal. Indeed, the characters bury their feelings of guilt in Kinalty Castle but everything that has been hidden and kept secret surfaces, is unburied or excavated : from stolen objects to unsaid words, and even carcasses of dead animals. The circulation of objects and corpses questions the partition between neutral country and country at war as it contaminates the mansion, but also the people living in it, their language as well as the narrator’s. |
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