Ian Watt

Ian Watt
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780192558510
ISBN-13 : 019255851X
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Book Synopsis Ian Watt by : Marina MacKay

Download or read book Ian Watt written by Marina MacKay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novel—about the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishes—can be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.


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