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Abstract: An experiment in what Elizabeth Bowen calls “creative criticism,” this co-written fictional dialogue explores the figure of the heart in Bowen’s work. Special attention is given to The Death of the Heart and to the short story “A Queer Heart,” both first published in 1938. Drawing on correspondences with the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu and E.M. Forster, the poetry of W.B. Yeats, and the philosophical thinking of Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy, we dramatize an understanding of the value and importance of Bowen’s work in embodying a new and singular modernist conception of the heart as other .
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