The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Sherry |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2005-01-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139826980 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Marina MacKay |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2009-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521887550 |
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107018234 |
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War PDF eBook |
Author | David Loewenstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2021-10-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108681522 |
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future.
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
Title | Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2006-04-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139915657 |
The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914
Title | The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Shattock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2010-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521882885 |
A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
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Release | 2018 |
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This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War in English at the start of the war's centennial commemoration. It provides historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigative analysis of the war poetry of women, civilians, Anglo-American modernists and others.