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War and Literature (Hardcover)
Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson; Contributions by Andrew Zurcher, Carol Watts, Catherine A. M. Clarke, …
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Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and
against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.
War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its
only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the
uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to
modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms,
celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of
inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of
representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true
even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical,
literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real
pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing
significance, and to provide some clues to the intricateentwinement
of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include
writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred
Years War; Shakespeare's "Casus Belly"; Auden's "Journal of an
Airman"; and War and Peace. Ian Patterson is a poet, critic and
translator. He teaches English at Queens' College, Cambridge. Laura
Ashe is Associate Professor of English and a Tutorial Fellow of
Worcester College, Oxford. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine
A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark
Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie L. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F.
Wright, Andrew Zurcher.
As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and
diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland's most important yet
understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the
first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse
literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the
UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality,
socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism,
mothering, and decolonisation. The volume also features 'Europe' a
previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first
time. Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from
undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone
with an interest in Mitchison's life and literary legacy.
As the twenty-first century unfolds, notions of our cultural past
and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily.
Within this, accepted artistic trajectories are being questioned
and new connections made. In this wide-ranging and
thought-provoking publication, experts in their field address
specific aspects of British art of the twentieth century.
Presenting new perspectives on established narratives, subjects
range from British Surrealism and the rise of corporate and private
patronage, to nationality and British identity. Complemented by a
range of striking images, this publication succeeds in showing the
strength of the British artistic tradition while also encouraging
the reader to rethink and explore the existing narrative.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable
acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm
identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been
rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal,
individual identity remains a complex chimera. The Art of
Identification examines how such processes are entangled within a
wider sphere of cultural identity formation. Against the backdrop
of an unstable modernity and the rapid rise and expansion of
identificatory techniques, this volume makes the case that identity
and identification are mutually imbricated and that our best
understanding of both concepts and technologies comes through the
interdisciplinary analysis of science, bureaucratic
infrastructures, and cultural artifacts. With contributions from
literary critics, cultural historians, scholars of film and new
media, a forensic anthropologist, and a human bioarcheologist, this
book reflects upon the relationship between the bureaucratic,
scientific, and technologically determined techniques of
identification and the cultural contexts of art, literature, and
screen media. In doing so, it opens the interpretive possibilities
surrounding identification and pushes us to think about it as
existing within a range of cultural influences that complicate the
precise formulation, meaning, and reception of the concept. In
addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include
Dorothy Butchard, Patricia E. Chu, Jonathan Finn, Rebecca Gowland,
Liv Hausken, Matt Houlbrook, Rob Lederer, Andrew Mangham, Victoria
Stewart, and Tim Thompson.
Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history
of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century,
national governments and writers of fiction alike began to take an
interest in information not simply as fact, nor yet as effortlessly
transmissible data, but as an unusual and destabilizing new
phenomenon. For some writers, such as Joseph Conrad and Walter
Benjamin, 'information' came to represent not effortless
transmissibility, but rather an interruption of meaningful
communication. For others - such as Elizabeth Bowen - such
interruptions were themselves ways of making new kinds of meaning.
The attempt to reimagine and redefine information produced a range
of new informatic phenomena dedicated to its control: passports,
files, and identity papers; the files of Mass-Observation movement;
the literal and figurative blackout procedures of the Blitz; and
the government-backed 'information film'. Modernist Informatics
traces the effects of these new phenomena in early
twentieth-century culture, where experimental approaches to
narrative and to subjectivity began to compete with government
archives for the right to represent the citizens of the modern
security state. It argues that information and literary narrative
have a history of entanglement as well as antagonism, and that this
double relation was central to the cultural shaping of modernity.
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