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School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh

Dr. Anna Svendsen discusses David Jones's In Parenthesis

The call for Christ-like "sacrifice" in the recruitment tactics and memorialization of the First World War often had a ring of hypocrisy in the midst and in the aftermath of that dreadful conflict. It was subsequently ironized by many poets and artists of the period. But the poet and painter David Jones (1895-1974) complicates the image of Christ in the First World War in his 1937 poetic writing In Parenthesis by making an immediate comparison between the WWI soldier and certain pre-Christian sacrificial figures discussed in James Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890-1940). Dr. Svendsen will discuss how David Jones's work explores the relationship between the suffering of WWI soldiers, pre-Christian sacrificial figures, and the eternal sacrifice of Christ

<h3>Dr Anna Svendsen
</h3>Anna Svendsen is a researcher and university instructor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is also the Associate Director of the David Jones Research Center in Takoma Park, Maryland, and a co-director of the David Jones Digital Archive project overseen by the Center.

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