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The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In a series of compelling readings, scholars who have shaped the field rethink the intersections between war, literature, cu...
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Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Proceedings of the British Academy,
213 |
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| Summary: |
The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In a series of compelling readings, scholars who have shaped the field rethink the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across an international range of writers.Silence, sacrifice, the unfathomable, maximal intensity, proximity and distance, the divide between the living and the dead, the transfiguration of the skies, resistance, empire and cosmopolitanism are some of the themes that emerge in essays that simultaneously illuminate and take us beyond the parenthesis of the war years. The terms 'war writing', 'modernism', and 'modernity' are themselves revisited as the cast of internationally renowned contributors embed the conflict in a broader and more global understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. |
| Item Description: | Proceedings of the conference, "First World War: literature, culture, modernity," held November 11-12, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197266267 0197266266 |
| Index Number: | PR408 |
| CLC: | I106-532 |
| Call Number: | I106-532/F527/2014 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Unfathomable -- Three war veterans who don't tell war stories / Scaling war : poetic calibration and mythic measures in David Jones's In parenthesis / Imbalances : mass death and the economy of 'sacrifice' in the great war / Scoping the war -- Civilians writing the war : metaphor, proximity, action / First world war film and the face of death / The zeppelin in the sky of the mind / Dissent and the literature of the first world war : Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson / 'Cosmopolitan sympathies'? -- 'Cosmopolitan sympathies' : poetry of the first global war / Maternal cosmopoetics : Käthe Kollwitz and European women poets of the first world war / Encountering war, encountering others : Enid Bagnold and Mary Borden / Entangled emotions : race, encounters and anti-colonial cosmopolitanism / |