Screen LibraryThe great war in post-memory literature and film /
The First World War has remained the subject of prose fiction, drama, and film across nations. This volume provides a comprehensive international survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media. It addresses the role of these media in preserving and (re)shaping the memory of t...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Media and cultural memory / medien und kulturelle erinnerung;
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| Summary: |
The First World War has remained the subject of prose fiction, drama, and film across nations. This volume provides a comprehensive international survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media. It addresses the role of these media in preserving and (re)shaping the memory of the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations. |
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1 online resource (vii, 459 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110363029 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet? " -- Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front / Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines / It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War / Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes / A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War / The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today s U.S. Veterans / The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque s Im Westen nichts Neues / "I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March s Company K on the Screen / The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter s War / "Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War / The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction / Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessin es and the Representation of the Great War / What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War / Remembering The Wars / Joseph Boyden s Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction / Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s / Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century / National Versions of the Great War: Modern Aust |