The Great War of 1914-1918 marked 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 World War I. It examines the war's impact on various national literatures before addressing the way the War affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and, of course, the war poets. The volume concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature.
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"This outstanding volume is a welcome corrective to tired truisms surrounding Great War history,culture, and literature.... [Sherry and his collaborators] demonstrate new ways of reading and teaching literary representations of the Great War."
-Yearbook of English Studies, Geneviève Brassard, University of Portland
"Readers should not mistake Vincent Sherry's addition to the Cambridge Companion series as a mere reference work or crib for undergraduates. It is, in fact, a collection of very fine essays--some surveys, other original, thesis-driven arguments--from a distinguished group of contributors...We are fortunate to have this fine new guide to its literary and cultural legacy." English Studies in Canada Patricia Rae, Queen's University
-Yearbook of English Studies, Geneviève Brassard, University of Portland
"Readers should not mistake Vincent Sherry's addition to the Cambridge Companion series as a mere reference work or crib for undergraduates. It is, in fact, a collection of very fine essays--some surveys, other original, thesis-driven arguments--from a distinguished group of contributors...We are fortunate to have this fine new guide to its literary and cultural legacy." English Studies in Canada Patricia Rae, Queen's University
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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 World War One. It examines the impact of the World War One on various national literatures, before addressing the way World War One 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.
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The genre, "memoir," is an odd one, encompassing simple chronicles and more elaborate, analytic or poetically structured accounts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
combat novel, trench poetry, war poetry, war criticism, secret battle, trench experience, war poets, war fiction, war literature, war writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Western Front, Dos Passos, Oxford University Press, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, All Quiet, Blaise Cendrars, Cambridge University Press, Edmund Blunden, Selected Letters, Virginia Woolf, Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, War Imagined, Ford Madox Ford, Strange Meeting, Thomas Mann, Jacob's Room, David Jones, Hans Castorp, Parade's End, The Storm of Steel, Jonathan Cape New!
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The genre, "memoir," is an odd one, encompassing simple chronicles and more elaborate, analytic or poetically structured accounts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
combat novel, trench poetry, war poetry, war criticism, secret battle, trench experience, war poets, war fiction, war literature, war writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Western Front, Dos Passos, Oxford University Press, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, All Quiet, Blaise Cendrars, Cambridge University Press, Edmund Blunden, Selected Letters, Virginia Woolf, Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, War Imagined, Ford Madox Ford, Strange Meeting, Thomas Mann, Jacob's Room, David Jones, Hans Castorp, Parade's End, The Storm of Steel, Jonathan Cape New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell on 11 pages
- All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque on 7 pages
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf on 7 pages
- War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes on 6 pages
- Strange Meeting (Nonpareil Book) by Susan Hill on 5 pages
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- Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature by Santanu Das in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Timothy Morton in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jenny Bourne Taylor in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Efraín Kristal in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Ellen Rooney in Front Matter
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