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Connecting First World War and its aftermath texts

Andrew Ward compares some of the ways in which First World War and its aftermath novelists, playwrights and poets present the theme of alienation

Ben Barnes as Stephen Wraysford in Birdsong (London 2010)

AQA (A): Paper 2 ‘World War I and its aftermath’: core set texts

While there are a number of ways we might connect texts in order to make meaning within the shared context of the First World War and its aftermath, the real skill and judgement lie in pursuing the most fruitful arguments and lines of enquiry. As differences are invariably more interesting than similarities, one approach is to see every link as an opportunity to go on to discuss contrasts between texts, genres, methods and effects.

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