Event overview
GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar)
In the ‘Preface’ to In Parenthesis (1937), his modernist epic about an infantryman’s experiences in the First World War, David Jones explains the poem’s title as representing ‘a kind of space between’. By developing this metaphor into a broader consideration of the ‘space’ of the Western Front, this paper considers the impact of transportation systems such as motorbuses and light railways on warfare in the early-twentieth century and the place of this infrastructure in Jones’s poem. Alongside this, the mapping and naming of the trenches is studied in order to better understand the sites in which Jones served and the manner in which he uses their geography as a vital structuring principle of his text. The ‘traffic’ of the trenches is argued as being particularly applicable to the liminal ‘space between’ of the First World War as In Parenthesis portrays it.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2017 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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