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Sites of memory, sites of mourning : the Great War in European cultural history /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winter, J. M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edition:Canto ed.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918 > Art and the war.
Europe > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Influence.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
War and literature.
Europe.
Geistesgeschichte
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Europa
Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Beeldvorming.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Europa.
1900-1999
Art.
Online Access:Additional Information at Google Books
Table of Contents:
  • Homecomings : the return of the dead
  • Communities in mourning
  • Spiritualism and the 'lost generation'
  • War memorials and the mourning process
  • Mythologies of war : films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred
  • The apocalyptic imagination in art : from anticipation to allegory
  • The apocalyptic imagination in war literature
  • War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.