Jocelyn Brooke’s The Military Orchid: A Literary Hybrid
The Military Orchid, autobiographical in form and partly so in content, appeared in 1948. It was Jocelyn Brooke’s first published novel and was followed in close succession by A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950), all three based on the same narrative principles and forming a fi...
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| Pubblicato in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes, |
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Français |
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Polysèmes
2018
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The Military Orchid, autobiographical in form and partly so in content, appeared in 1948. It was Jocelyn Brooke’s first published novel and was followed in close succession by A Mine of Serpents (1949) and The Goose Cathedral (1950), all three based on the same narrative principles and forming a fictionalised autobiographical trilogy. The title is not, as may be assumed by readers unfamiliar with botany, a metaphor, but the name of a very rare species of orchid, though metaphorical meanings ... |
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