Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt During the Second World War

This paper argues that Keith Douglas’s art is centrally about the condensation or simplification of emotion into image. It examines Douglas’s approaches to writing war. By looking at the several modes of Douglas’s war writing (autobiography, letters, poetry and the short story), it traces the evolut...

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Main Author: Andrea RUMMEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2020-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/9567
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Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt During the Second World War
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title Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt During the Second World War
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