The Great War in post-memory literature and film

The Great War in post-memory literature and film / edited by Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.

The First World War has remained the subject of prose fiction, drama, and film across nations. This volume provides a comprehensive international survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media. It addresses the role of these media in preserving and (re)shaping the memory of t...

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Other Authors: Löschnigg, Martin (Editor), Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Media and cultural memory ; 18.
Subjects:
Bibel > Philemonbrief
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Collective memory and literature.
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
War films > History and criticism.
Collective memory and motion pictures.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Collective memory and literature
Collective memory and motion pictures
Literature, Modern
War and literature
War and motion pictures
War films
Erster Weltkrieg > Motiv
Literatur
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz and Martin Löschnigg: Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet?"
  • "Entrenched" Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War. Margot Norris: Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Caroline Perret: Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines
  • Ross J. Wilson: It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War
  • Marlene A. Briggs: Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes
  • Paul Skrebels: A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War
  • Ty Hawkins: The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America
  • Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today's U.S. Veterans
  • The Challenge of Form: How to "Remember" the Great War. Thomas F. Schneider: The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues
  • Marek Paryz: "I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March's Company K on the Screen
  • Michael Paris: The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter's War
  • Martin Löschnigg: "Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War
  • David Malcolm:The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction
  • Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud: Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War
  • Jean Anderson: What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War
  • Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories. Sherrill Grace: Remembering The Wars
  • Hanna Teichler: Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post- )Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction
  • Christina Spittel: Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Clare Rhoden: Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century
  • Daniel Reynaud: National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema
  • Richard Slotkin: The "Lost Battalion" of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality
  • Maurizio Cinquegrani: Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War
  • Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz: The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland
  • Angela Brintlinger: The Great War through "Great October": 1914/1917 in Russian Memory
  • Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War. Geert Buelens: They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?: The First World War in Cold War Era Films
  • Richard Smith: Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory
  • Anne Samson: Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign
  • Alicia Fahey: Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers
  • Brigitte Johanna Glaser : Women and World War I: "Postcolonial" Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War.

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