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Winter, Jay

 
9780521496827: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
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ISBN 10 : 0521496829 ISBN 13 : 9780521496827
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Jay Winter's powerful new study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a great variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration, and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'Modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914-1918, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose, inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Revue de presse

'From now on this book will be indispensable to our understanding of the Great War. The most recent scholarship has been taken into account, but, above all, Jay Winter gives us crucial new insights into the war's meaning from the process of mourning for the fallen to apocalyptic literature.' George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of Fallen Soldiers

'Jay Winter has enlarged the frame of cultural history and enriched its texture. He transforms our understanding of World War One as a cataclysmic event in the experience of European peoples.' Kenneth S. Inglis, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

'This is a profound and moving book, thoroughly to be recommended.' Stephen Croad, Despatches

' ... a profoundly moving book ... It is strongly recommended for anyone interested in cultural history and, in particular, in the ways in which individuals and communities respond to the experience of universal grief and mourning and try to find meaning and comfort, if not peace'. Otago Daily Times

'No one interested in the broad impact of the First World War, or of the cultural history of the twentieth century, can afford to neglect this book.' The Times Literary Supplement

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jay Winter's powerful new study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a great variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration, and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'Modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914-1918, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose, inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521496829
ISBN 13 
9780521496827
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781107661653: Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War In European Cultural History

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ISBN 10 :  110766165X ISBN 13 :  9781107661653
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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