The power of the past: structural nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris and The Little Girls.(Critical Essay)

From: Style | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Kelly, Marian | Copyright information

Elizabeth Bowen subjects both her characters and her readers to the dynamics of nostalgia in two of her novels. The House in Paris and The Little Girls are unique in Bowen's oeuvre in their use of "structural nostalgia"--a tripartite structure containing a section that takes place in the past put between two sections that take place in the present. Though this structure suggests that readers may simply engage in a nostalgic return along with the characters, Bowen uses it instead to...

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