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Aestheticising War Noises as Literary Devices: Ford Madox Ford’s Epistolary and Essayistic Poetics of Sound(scape)s Cover

Aestheticising War Noises as Literary Devices: Ford Madox Ford’s Epistolary and Essayistic Poetics of Sound(scape)s

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|Nov 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.207 | Journal eISSN: 2184-6006
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 20, 2025
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Accepted on: Sep 15, 2025
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Published on: Nov 19, 2025
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