The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War Ii (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 1/22/2009
EAN 9780521715416, ISBN10: 0521715415
Paperback, 258 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.
Chronology
Introduction Marina MacKay
Part I. Anglo-American Texts and Contexts
1. War poetry in Britain Adam Piette
2. British fiction of the war Rod Mengham
3. War poetry in the USA Margot Norris
4. The American war novel James Dawes
5. War journalism in English Leo Mellor
Part II. Global Perspectives
6. The French war Debarati Sanyal
7. The German war Dagmar Barnouw
8. The Soviet war Katharine Hodgson
9. The Italian war Robert S. C. Gordon
10. The Japanese war Reiko Tachibana
11. War writing in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand Donna Coates
Part III. Approaches and Revisions
12. Women writers and the war Gill Plain
13. Life writing and the Holocaust Phyllis Lassner
14. Theories of trauma Lyndsey Stonebridge
15. The war in contemporary fiction Petra Rau
Guide to further reading
Index.