The Great War and Modern Memory - Couverture souple

Fussell, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195133323 ISBN 13 : 9780195133325

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2000

Synopsis

The Great War and Modern Memory The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary Fussell's volume about the First World War. It explores the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalised and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the experience itself. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of W.W.I remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized W.W.I as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines-among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry-it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP Oxford
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195133323
• ISBN 13: 9780195133325
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382