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Article: "It is All a Darkness": Death, Narrative Therapy, and Ford Madox Ford's 'The Good Soldier'.(Critical Essay)
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- Papers on Language & Literature
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Despite the publication of numerous essays that explore Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) in terms of its many intriguing narratological, aesthetic, comedic, and temporal aspects, the scholarship regarding Ford's most celebrated novel has yet to consider the role of death in The Good Soldier's richly nuanced narrative. For John Dowell, Ford's bewildered narrator, the text of the novel functions as a form of narrative therapy, as the means via which he comes to terms with the suicides of his wife Florence and of his friend Edward Ashburnham, as well as the untimely passing of Maisie Maidan and the spiritual death of Nancy Rufford. The composition of his narrative ...