‘Deep Ancestral Voices’: Inner and Outer Narrative in Christopher J. Koch’s Highways to a War

Abstract

Argues that in Koch's novel, 'two strands are continually in process: the inner and outer life, the world of values and the quotidian, the mythic and the historical.'

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Published 1 May 1997 in Volume 18 No. 1. Subjects: Characterisation, Narrative techniques, Quest motif, Writer's craft.

Cite as: Mitchell, Adrian. ‘‘Deep Ancestral Voices’: Inner and Outer Narrative in Christopher J. Koch’s Highways to a War.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1997, doi: 10.20314/als.faceec7f0a.