tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38722468.post2669516043804904245..comments2023-11-02T04:26:06.017-07:00Comments on No More Parades: Trench warfare: The Mud in No More ParadesDr. Stephen Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16765689515656935339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38722468.post-24319597635497316262007-04-04T19:10:00.000-07:002007-04-04T19:10:00.000-07:00I absolutely agree that mud played a significant p...I absolutely agree that mud played a significant part in No More Parades. I found an article where the critic quotes " In No More Parades a physical fear of mud obsesses Tietjens:" It is unbearable: it is that that has ruined us... The mud!" "These words are spoken by a German deserter who like the rest of his comrades who have deserted with him, is covered with mud, so that their coming to surrender seems like the mud itself is moving. Tietjens has yet to have his baptism of mud, but the slime of scandal, like the dishonor of desertion, is ruinning him as surely as it did the german deserters. The mud image, with its picture of higly mechanized armies bogged down in the mud, suggests that the world itself is bogged down in its own slime". <BR/>(Ford. Twentieth-Century Literary Critism, Vol.172, p.79.)Mariyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17131985128252192173noreply@blogger.com