This dissertation examines the modes of individual and cultural grieving that characterize the British literature of the Great War and its aftermath, 1914-30. Combining archival research, cultural history, and genre theory, I identify the war literature’s expression of a poetics of grief and grievance: one that is melancholic, in that it resists redemptive mourning, and accusatory, in that it frequently assigns blame for war and suffering on civilian spectators or the writer himself. In order to trace the development of the anti-elegiac in the literature of the Great War, my dissertation provides: (a) a publication history of the war poems of Wilfred Owen, (b) a comparison of the manipulation of the pathetic fallacy and pastoral mode in the works of combatant poets and Virginia Woolf, and (c) a detailed assessment of the reception of the controversial war memoirs and novels of the late 1920s. My findings challenge the widely held assumption that the pervasive irony and disenchantment of the literature of the Great War is primarily a product of the historical rupture of the event. I emphasize that the ironic mode developed during the war- and inter-war periods is an expression of personal and social anxiety attached by writers to the subject of individual mortality. Additionally, I argue that the literature of the Great War focuses on the limits of language that addresses atrocity, and the instability of the idea of consolation in an era of mass, industrialized death. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-180). / iv, 180 leaves, bound 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-340). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-153).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 2000. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur in total fulfilment of the rquirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, October, 2000. Bibliography : leaves 308-320.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-153).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oklahoma State University, 1985. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-379).

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El interés de este estudio reside en examinar la obra poética de Wilfred Owen en el ámbito de su producción y tradición –especialmente desde la teoría del discurso de Mijail Bajtin y las ciencias sociales– estableciendo relaciones con los discursos de su tiempo. La investigación enmarcada así en la línea de los estudios culturales, rescata la posición del otro no integrado en el discurso oficial y que cuyas afirmaciones se adhieren o se oponen al discurso de la historia canonizado y al propuesto desde las esferas de poder en el contexto de la Gran Guerra (1914-1918). De esta manera, esta investigación tiene como propósito desarrollar una lectura de carácter dialógico de la poética de Wilfred Owen durante el conflicto a partir de sus vínculos con aparato oficialista (cristiano, nacionalista e imperialista); y, luego, con el carácter histórico del género en contraste con el discurso poético de Wilfred Owen, insertando en dichos procesos una mirada testimonial, característica del lenguaje de su poesía escrita a partir de su experiencia en el frente occidental.