The First World War : literature, culture, modernity /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Proceedings of the conference, "First World War: literature, culture, modernity," held November 11-12, 2014. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197266266 9780197266267 |
| ISSN: | 0068-1202 ; |