The Great War and modern memory

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Concentrating on the work of Sassoon, Graves, Blunden, Owen and David Jones, this book examines the way literature remembered, conventionalized and mythologized life on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918.

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Title Statements

Full title :The Great War and modern memory / Paul Fussell ; with a new introduction by Jay Winter.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013
Edition:New edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

Notes

Previous edition: 2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 414 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199971954, 0199971951
oclc:ocn841671998
LC Classification:PR478.E8
Dewey Decimal:820.9358

A satire of circumstance -- The troglodyte world -- Adversary proceedings -- Myth, ritual, and romance -- Oh what a literary war -- Theater of war -- Arcadian recourses -- Soldier boys -- Persistence and memory.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Erinnerung Great Britain Guerre et littérature Kollektives Gedächtnis Literature Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Mémoire dans la littérature Memory in literature War and literature Weltkrieg World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and …