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The forms and functions of back story in the novel
No full textInternational audienceThis articles develops a theory of back story (exposition) in the novel
Fictions of class and community in Henry Green's Living
No full textInternational audienceThe dominant critical consensus of Henry Green’s fiction is that it is anti-mimetic and abstracted from society, a starting point that invariably cuts off any reflection about the correspondences between Green’s novels and social conditions. This article examines Living and argues that a deeper understanding of its structure, meaning, and thematic can be acquired by considering its relationship to the particular working-class conditions and culture of 1920s Birmingham. The analysis considers the novel’s worker-employee relationships and its specific use of language from this vantage point. Living is also an interesting example of a regional modernist novel set within an urban center, a type of novel that modernist scholars have largely overlooked
