British literature and culture in Second World Wartime : for the duration /

"What happens to the concept of wartime in the 1940s? For the Duration excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. Coloured by the trauma of past violence and dread of those to come, the Second World War and its defi...

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Main Author:	Pong, Beryl (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford mid-century studies.
Subjects:	British literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Art, British > 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain. Littérature britannique > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Art britannique > 20e siècle. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Art et guerre. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Grande-Bretagne. Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) History. ART. World War II. Military. 20th Century. Modern. Individual Photographers. PHOTOGRAPHY. War and literature Art, British British literature Great Britain 1900-1999 Electronic books. works of art. Art Criticism, interpretation, etc. Art. Œuvres d'art.
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Summary:	"What happens to the concept of wartime in the 1940s? For the Duration excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. Coloured by the trauma of past violence and dread of those to come, the Second World War and its defining military strategy, civilian aerial bombardment, upended straightforward understandings of past, present, and future. Identifying a constellation of temporalities and affects under three tropes--time capsules, time zones, and ruins--the book contends that Second World Wartime is a pivotal moment when wartime surpassed the boundaries of a specific state of emergency, becoming first routine and then open-ended. It scrutinizes a variety of cultural artefacts, from life-writings to short stories, from novels to film and painting, that formally registered the distinctiveness of this wartime through a complex feedback between anticipation and retrospection. While offering a strong foundation for new readers of the mid-century, the book and its overall theoretical focus on chronophobia will be an important intervention for those already working in the field"--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780192577641 0192577646 9780191876530 0191876534