History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings

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Joseph Wiesenfarth
Rodopi, 2004 - 241 頁
History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings explores the idea of history across various genres: fiction, autobiography, books about places and cultures, criticism, and poetry. 'I wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time', wrote Ford. The twenty leading specialists assembled for this volume consider his writing about twentieth-century events, especially the First World War; and also his representations of the past, particularly in his fine trilogy about Henry VIII and Katharine Howard, The Fifth Queen. Ford's provocative dealings with the relationship between fiction and history is shown to anticipate postmodern thinking about historiography and narrative. The collection includes essays by two acclaimed novelists, Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Judd, assessing Ford's grasp of literary history, and his place in it.

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Ford Madox
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Parades End in the Context of National Efficiency
41
Fords Paradoxical Development of the Personal Tone
91
Using Ford in Fiction
135
Rhetoric Tone
173
The Duality of Fords Historical Imagination
189
Fords Modernism
201
An Old Man Mad about Writing
219
The Contributors
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第 201 頁 - NOW, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
第 72 頁 - A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow...
第 143 頁 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illud ct vanissimum Malmsburiense animal.
第 198 頁 - America is God's crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won't be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God you've come to — these are the fires of God.
第 150 頁 - In one sense, yes. Such a debate and such a majority will make men think. But no ; — think is too high a word ; as a rule men don't think. But it will make them believe that there is something in it. Many who before regarded legislation on the subject as chimerical, will now fancy that it is only dangerous, or perhaps not more than difficult. And so in time it will come to be looked on as among the things possible, then among the things probable ; — and so at last it will be arranged in the list...
第 184 頁 - At Innisfree there is a public-house; They board you well for ten and six a week. The mutton is not good, but you can eat Their honey. I am going there to take A week or so of holiday tomorrow. There might have been in addition some details about the landscape and whether the fishing was good.
第 198 頁 - Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians — into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American.
第 84 頁 - Dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.
第 23 頁 - Everything had changed suddenly — the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute — life or truth or beauty — of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that...
第 124 頁 - Romeo and Juliet also embody another popular misconception : that of the suicidal great passion. It seems that those who die for love usually do so by mistake and ill-luck. It is said that the London police can always distinguish, among the corpses fished out of the Thames, between those who have drowned themselves because of unhappy love affairs and those drowned for debt. The fingers of the lovers are almost invariably lacerated by their attempts to save themselves by clinging to the piers of the...

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JOSEPH WIESENFARTH is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written extensively on Ford and on the English novel. His book Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989) includes a chapter on Parade's End. He was guest editor for the special issue, on 'Ford Madox Ford and the Arts', of Contemporary Literature, 30:2 (Summer 1989).His edition of Jane Austen's The Three Sisters will be published by the Juvenilia Press (Sydney, Australia, 2004); and his study Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2005.

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