St. Christopher Returns from the Trenches: Imitating Christ in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
Critical work on Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End has paid little attention to the protagonist’s depiction as a Christ figure; generally, the Christ allusions are read ironically. By contrast, this article contends that Christopher Tietjens’ association with saints and Christ is central to Ford’s expe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2023
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2023, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 423-441 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Memory
B Christianity B Great War B Trauma B Modernism |
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| Summary: | Critical work on Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End has paid little attention to the protagonist’s depiction as a Christ figure; generally, the Christ allusions are read ironically. By contrast, this article contends that Christopher Tietjens’ association with saints and Christ is central to Ford’s experimental Great War tetralogy. To counter discourses that portrayed soldiers as comforting Christian martyrs, Ford constructs a living, disquieting Christ figure. Both Tietjens’ trauma and his desire for suffering undermine efforts to explain war experience and forget. Ultimately, Ford’s subversive use of Christ allusions transforms a conservative motif into a radical one to challenge postwar commemoration. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2023.a910033 |