The First World War literature, culture, modernity 1st World War Das, Santanu editor. McLoughlin, Catherine Mary 1970- editor. text bibliography conference publication Conference papers and proceedings. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2018 2018 First edition. monographic eng print xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 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. 1 Introduction / Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin -- Part 1. Unfathomable -- 2. Three war veterans who don't tell war stories / Kate McLoughlin -- 3. Scaling war : poetic calibration and mythic measures in David Jones's In parenthesis / Hope Wolfe -- 4. Imbalances : mass death and the economy of 'sacrifice' in the great war / Vincent Sherry -- Part 2. Scoping the war -- 5. Civilians writing the war : metaphor, proximity, action / Sarah Cole -- 6. First world war film and the face of death / Laura Marcus -- 7. The zeppelin in the sky of the mind / Christine Froula -- 8. Dissent and the literature of the first world war : Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson / Mark Rawlinson -- Part 3. 'Cosmopolitan sympathies'? -- 9. 'Cosmopolitan sympathies' : poetry of the first global war / Jahan Ramazani -- 10. Maternal cosmopoetics : Käthe Kollwitz and European women poets of the first world war / Margaret R. Higonnet -- 11. Encountering war, encountering others : Enid Bagnold and Mary Borden / Claire Buck -- 12. Entangled emotions : race, encounters and anti-colonial cosmopolitanism / Santanu Das. edited by Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin. Proceedings of the conference, "First World War: literature, culture, modernity," held November 11-12, 2014. Includes bibliographical references and index. World War (1914-1918) World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war World War, 1914-1918 In literature War in literature English literature 20th century History and criticism English literature Literature War and literature War in literature 1900-1999 fast PR408.W37 F57 2018 809/.93358403 902.05 Proceedings of the British Academy ; 213 0197266266 9780197266267 YDX 171203 20190718165428.0 in00004072940 eng