Camb Comp Literature 1st World War (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521528979, ISBN10: 0521528976
Paperback, 348 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.
Introduction Vincent Sherry
Part I. The Great War in British Literary Culture
1. British war memoirs Paul Edwards
2. The British novel and the war David Trotter
3. The Great War, history, and the English lyric Edna Longley
4. British women's writing of the Great War Claire Buck
5. The Great War and literary modernism in England Vincent Sherry
Part II. The World War
Pan-European Views, Trans-Atlantic Prospects
6. The Great War and the European avant-garde Marjorie Perloff
7. French writing of the Great War Catharine Savage Brosman
8. The Great War and modern German memory Stanley Corngold
9. American writing of the Great War John T. Matthews
Part III. Postwar Engagements
10. Myths, memories, and monuments
re-imagining the Great War Sharon Ouditt
11. Interpreting the war James Campbell
12. The Great War in twentieth-century cinema Laura Marcus.
'With its up-to-date scholarship, this book would be a very useful acquisition for serious research into the literature of the period, for undergraduate level-students and beyond.' Reference Reviews