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The Great War and Modern Memory (Hardcover, Anniversary)
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The Great War and Modern Memory (Hardcover, Anniversary)
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This book made a stir when it first came out in 1976. The author, a
literary and social historian, looks at the impact of World War I
on English and American literature. He moves from the enthusiasms
of Rupert Brooke to the harsher realities of Sassoon and Graves,
and goes on to show how notions and images of war have coloured
common speech and imaginative writing down to the age of Amis and
Heller. An interesting, though occasionally a maddening book.
(Kirkus UK)
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the experience itself. Fussell supplies contexts both actual and literary, for writers who have most effectively memorialized the great War as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artisitc meaning. These writers include the classic memoirists Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, and poets David Jones, Isaac rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen. In a new introduction Fussell discusses the critical responses to his work, and the books that have influenced his writing and thinking about war. Fussell also shares the stirring experience of his research at the Imperial War Museum's Department of Documents. Fussell includes a new Suggested Further Reading List.
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