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'A caricature of his own voice': Ford and self-editing in Parade's End

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This paper argues that Ford’s vocation as editor forms an intrinsic part of his novelistic aesthetics. Ford’s interest in editing may also be considered as a literary agenda for his novelistic work. Ford’s practice of editing is thus conspicuously at work in Parade’s End. Ford keeps asserting and then re-evaluating his views on ideology, philosophy and aesthetics. The use of punctuation signals a text that is undergoing a constant and open process of self-edition. This process is shared to some degree by the characters. Moreover, through the rewriting of their stances and statements, both the characters and the writer adopt a position akin to that of a film editor. Finally, the final volume of the tetralogy may be considered as a major addendum to the work and a sweeping gesture of re-edition of the whole. This process of doing and undoing contributes to dynanism to the work.
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hal-04386176 , version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Isabelle Brasme. 'A caricature of his own voice': Ford and self-editing in Parade's End. Jason Harding. Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing, International Ford Madox Ford Studies (9), BRILL, pp.243-252, 2010, 978-90-420-3055-8. ⟨10.1163/9789042030565_019⟩. ⟨hal-04386176⟩
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