Politics And Literature At The Dawn Of World War Ii

Author : James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350324961

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Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II by James A. W. Heffernan Pdf

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Irène Némirovsky. Taking its cue from Percy Shelley's dictum that great writers are to some extent created by the age in which they live, this book shows how much the politics and warfare of the years from 1939 to 1941 drove the literature of this period. Its novels, poems, and plays differ radically from histories of World War II because-besides being works of imagination-- they are largely products of a particular stage in the author's life as well as of a time at which no one knew how the war would end. This is the first comprehensive study of the impact of the outbreak of the Second World War on the literary work of American, English, and European writers during its first years.

Author : James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350324978

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Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II by James A. W. Heffernan Pdf

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Irène Némirovsky. Taking its cue from Percy Shelley's dictum that great writers are to some extent created by the age in which they live, this book shows how much the politics and warfare of the years from 1939 to 1941 drove the literature of this period. Its novels, poems, and plays differ radically from histories of World War II because-besides being works of imagination-- they are largely products of a particular stage in the author's life as well as of a time at which no one knew how the war would end. This is the first comprehensive study of the impact of the outbreak of the Second World War on the literary work of American, English, and European writers during its first years.

Author : Steven White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108427630

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World War II and American Racial Politics by Steven White Pdf

Examines the myriad consequences of World War II for racial attitudes and the presidential response to civil rights.

Author : Neil Murphy,W. Michelle Wang,Cheryl Julia Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003807308

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art by Neil Murphy,W. Michelle Wang,Cheryl Julia Lee Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television. Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture. The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Author : Jim Dator
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031612947

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Living Make-Belief: Thriving in a Dream Society by Jim Dator Pdf

Author : Loyd Lee,Robin Higham
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313293252

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World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources by Loyd Lee,Robin Higham Pdf

This volume discusses the best and most enduring literature of World War II years, incorporating all aspects from military and political history to social and cultural history.

Author : James H. Meredith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781573566414

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Understanding the Literature of World War II by James H. Meredith Pdf

With insightful analysis, factual contextual information, and illuminating historical documents, this book provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive event in history. The literature analyzed in this book includes that of novelists and poets such as Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Paul West, and Bette Green. Along with interviews with these literary luminaries that personalize the war and help to make connections between the literature and the actual experiences of those involved, Meredith also provides rare historical documents that enhance the reader's understanding of the military and political strategies of the major forces of the war. Each chapter provides a literary analysis of the most relevant literature for students on the topic of that chapter, followed by a historical overview of the aspect of the war that will aid the student to understand the historical context of the literature. Primary documents, especially interviews and memoirs, will help students to build bridges between history and the fictional accounts they read. Each chapter is followed by topics and questions for class discussion, suggestions for student papers, and a selected bibliography. This comprehensive casebook will be valuable for interdisciplinary study of World War II and the literature most frequently taught in high school English and history classes.

Author : William Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350196575

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Samuel Beckett and the Second World War by William Davies Pdf

"In the wake of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett wrote some of the most important literary works of the 20th century. This is the first in-depth historical study to examine the far-reaching impact of the war on Beckett's writing. The book explores a range of Beckett's texts, from his plays and fiction to criticism and poetry, and draws on a substantial body of archival and historical sources, from the diaries describing Beckett's experiences in Nazi Germany before the war to accounts of his resistance work in occupied France, his involvement with the Irish Red Cross and his attitudes to Irish neutrality. Along the way, Samuel Beckett and the Second World War casts new light on Beckett's political commitments and his concepts of history as they were formed during Europe's darkest hour"--

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781786894465

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If the War Goes On . . . by Hermann Hesse Pdf

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of World War I to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters. If The War Goes On . . . resonates as strong today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?

Author : Patricia Hachten Wee,Robert James Wee
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810853019

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World War II in Literature for Youth by Patricia Hachten Wee,Robert James Wee Pdf

This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.

Author : Tobias Boes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501745003

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Thomas Mann's War by Tobias Boes Pdf

In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.

Author : Milton A. Cohen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979756

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Axis/Axes to Grind by Milton A. Cohen Pdf

A study of political themes in American World War II novels from 1945 to 1975, including rebellion against military authority, treatment of minorities, future projections and retrospective interpretations of the war.

Author : Thomas W. Zeiler,Daniel M. DuBois
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1541 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118325056

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A Companion to World War II by Thomas W. Zeiler,Daniel M. DuBois Pdf

A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes. A collection of original historiographic essays that include cutting-edge research Analyzes the roles of neutral nations during the war Examines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classes Covers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the war

Author : A. Kadir Yildirim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009186506

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The Politics of Religious Party Change by A. Kadir Yildirim Pdf

The Politics of Religious Party Change examines the ideological change and secularization of religious political parties and asks: when and why do religious parties become less anti-system? In a comparative analysis, the book traces the striking similarities in the historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes the subsequently divergent trajectories of Islamist and Catholic parties. In examining how religious institutional structures affect the actions of religious parties in electoral politics, the book finds that centralized and hierarchical religious authority structures - such as the Vatican - incentivize religious parties to move in more pro-system, secular, and democratic directions. By contrast, less centralized religious authority structures - such as in Sunni Islam - create more permissive environments for religious parties to be anti-system and more prone to freely-formed parties and hybrid party movements.

Author : Christian Beck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030834777

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Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse by Christian Beck Pdf

Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines—such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought—to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.