Sites of memory, sites of mourning : the Great War in European cultural history /
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 cult...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Edition: | Canto ed. |
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| Online Access: | Additional Information at Google Books |
| Summary: | 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 characterized that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose, inevitably. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. Accession #: 2020_0001 "First published 1995"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521639883 9780521639880 0521496829 9780521496827 |