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Fragmenting the Soldier’s Mind: Heroic Ambiguity Fragmenting the Soldier’s Mind: Heroic Ambiguity
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Literature, Culture, and Heroism Literature, Culture, and Heroism
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‘I hate soldiering’: Portrait of the Soldier as a Misfit ‘I hate soldiering’: Portrait of the Soldier as a Misfit
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Heroic Women Heroic Women
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The Battle of the Mind The Battle of the Mind
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Aftermath Aftermath
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9 ‘I hate soldiering’: Ford, May Sinclair, and War Heroism
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Published:July 2015
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the complex representations of war heroism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and in May Sinclair’s four war novels: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916), The Tree of Heaven (1917), The Romantic (1920), and Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922). It argues that Ford and Sinclair, albeit differently, helped forge a new type of literary war heroism through their specific use of Freudian psychoanalysis. With Ford and Sinclair, heroism is transferred from the expected war records to the many intellectual and psychological battles fought by the soldiers’ minds. The antecedents, thoughts, feelings, impressions, and unconscious mind of the soldiers are the main focus of Ford and Sinclair’s construction of war heroism. This chapter argues that the experience of fragmentation, the struggle for continuity through culture, and the impossibility of a return to civilian life are three of the key dynamics in Ford and Sinclair’s portrayal of their modernist heroes.
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