The Years- Literary Form

Question 1

Form

Answer 1

Uses form to show disillusion of the private and public

Question 2

Family saga

Answer 2

Deploys family saga

Most popular as it is set within the genre rather than experimental

Question 3

Use of the familiar

Answer 3

Popular form to scrutinise boundaries between private life and institutions of public life

Question 4

Novel genre

Answer 4

Detective novel- interrogates truth of characters and institutions

Question 5

Use of the ordinary

Answer 5

Uses the ordinary to show society at the time like Lawrence

Question 6

Time

Answer 6

Never has a recurring time frame.
Never based on the entire year but more on a moment - temporality
Importance on individual experience rather than context
‘Darkness reigned over’