Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe

Buelens, Geert

ISBN 10: 1784781495 / ISBN 13: 9781784781491

Edité par Verso, 2015

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Synopsis :

The First World War changed the map of Europe forever; empires collapsed, new countries emerged, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. The Great War is often referred to as 'the literary war,' the war that saw both the birth of modernism and the precursors of futurism. During the first few months in Germany alone there were over a million poems of propaganda written. In this cultural history of the First World War, the conflict is seen the point of view of poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke, Alexander Blok, James Joyce, Fernando Pessoa, Andre Breton and Siegfried Sassoon. Everything to Nothing is a transnational history of how nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and post-war dealings - revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil wars, Versailles-and of how poets played a vital role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of the postwar Europe.

À propos de l?auteur: Geert Buelens is professor of Modern Dutch Literature and chair of the Dutch Department at Utrecht University, guest professor of Dutch Literature at Stellenbosch University (RSA) and Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. He is the author of several award winning books, and the editor of Avant Garde Critical Studies, co-editor of the Journal of Dutch Literature and a regular contributor to Dutch and Belgian newspapers.

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Titre : Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the ...
Éditeur : Verso
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good