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Author : John Onions
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349206209
Author : John Onions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English literature
ISBN : 033347287X
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866152
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038431
Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.
Author : David Owen,Cristina Pividori
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527565036
It is a commonplace belief that history is written by the victorious. However, less recognised but equally common is the idea that the defeated also write history, even if their particular account is rather different. This collection looks at these matters from a novel and distinct perspective. It essentially presents the idea that victors often perceive themselves as defeated, by examining the ways in which the idea of defeat comes to dominate the victors’ own sense of superiority and achievement, thereby undermining the certainties that victory is conventionally thought to create. The contributions here discuss fiction (mostly UK and US) published since the First World War. Through the frameworks of experience, memory and post-memory, they examine this subliminal defeat, basically as seen in conflict itself, in the societies that it affects, and in the individual lives of those who it destroys. The result is an innovative literary account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
Author : Kelly Alice Kelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474459938
Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women's literary representations of deathProvides the first sustained study of death and commemoration in women's literature in the wartime and postwar periodOffers a reconsideration of the relationship between the First World War and literary modernism through the lens of women's writing Considers the literary impact of the vast mortality of the First World War and the culture of war commemoration on British and American women's writingOne of the key questions of modern literature was the problem of what to do with the war dead. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf, as well as visual and material culture, this book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism. Considering previously neglected writing by women in the war zones and at home, as well as the marginalised writings of well-known modernist authors, and drawing on international archival research, this book demonstrates the intertwining of modernist, war, and memorial culture, and broadens the canon of war writing.
Author : Trevor Dodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107114203
This book helps readers understand the extent to which shell shock continues to shape modern memories of the First World War.
Author : Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521820774
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCAL:B5095663
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus,Barbara Korte
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141916491
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.
Author : David William Lloyd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845207397
In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this 'battlefield tourism' is chronicled in this absorbing and original book, which shows how the phenomenon served to construct memory in Britain, as well as in Australia and Canada. The author demonstrates that high and low culture, tradition and modernism, the sacred and the profane were often inter-related, rather than polar opposites. The various responses to the actual and imagined landscapes of battlefields are discussed, as well as bereavement and how this was shaped by gender, religion and the military experience. Individual memory and experience combined with nationalism and 'imperial' identity as powerful forces informing the pilgrim experience.But this book not only analyzes travel to battlefields, which unsurprisingly paralleled the growth of the modern tourist industry; it also looks closely at the transformation of national war memorials into pilgrimage sites, and shows how responses both to battlefields and memorials, which continue to serve as potent symbols, evolved in the years after the Great War.
Author : Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0945636903
The aim of Recharting the Thirties is to revitalize the awareness of the reading public with regard to eighteen writers whose books have been largely ignored by publishers and scholars since their major works first appeared in the thirties. The selection is not based on a political agenda, but encompasses a wide and divergent range of philosophies; clearly, the contrasts between Empson and Upward, or between Powell and Slater, indicated the wide-ranging vision of the period. Women writers of the period have largely been marginalized, and the writings of Sackville-West and Burdekin, for example, not only present distinct feminine voices of the period, but also illuminate how much good literature has been forgotten.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : Richard Aldington
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0838639526
For the first time all the war poems of Richard Aldington have been brought together. This collection is intended to reaffirm Aldington's position as a significant voice in the literature of the First World War.
Author : Ian Frederick William Beckett
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050510174
The Great War scarred both the people and the popular imagination of Europe. No previous war matched it in scale, brutality and futility. The course of events has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However this impressive book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of the conflict's impact: strategic, political, social and cultural. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assassination, misunderstanding and differing national war-aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences: #Mobilisation had a massive impact both on soldiers and female civilians, producing radical changes to people's way of life which stimulated political change #Science and technology created a new brand of industrialised warfare and were accelerated by the imperative of victory # The insecurity and strain of war created dissidence and mutiny, engendering revolution in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers and changed the balance of power, influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this account is global, showing how a conflict amongst European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embrace Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States. This is a bold and original book, offering a thematic study of a war that was famously, and quite rightly, labelled as 'the seminal event of the twentieth century'. Ian Beckett is Professor of History, Luton University, UK.
