Great War and Postmodern Memory

The First World War in Late 20 th -Century British Fiction (1985-2000)

Szerző: Virginie Renard

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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The end of the twentieth century was marked in Britain by a renewal of academic and public interest...

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Szerző

Virginie Renard

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2013

oldal

360

EAN

9782875741004

ISBN

9782875741004

Enbook ID

10022835

Kiadó

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Súly

510

Méretek

221 x 153 x 23

Teljes leírás

The end of the twentieth century was marked in Britain by a renewal of academic and public interest in the Great War, which remains one of the most defining historical events in British national consciousness. Focusing on questions of memory, this book examines some of the First World War narratives that were published during what has been called the late twentieth-century «war books boom». It provides a panoramic overview of these new war stories and offers close readings of texts written not only by best-selling authors such as Pat Barker and Sebastian Faulks, but also by less well-known writers who deserve greater academic attention, such as Robert Edric and Helen Dunmore. It investigates military historians’ claims about the lack of historical perspective of recent Great War writers, their perpetuation of «myths» and their inability to move beyond what has already been imagined and said. Positioned at a mid-point between literary analysis and history, this study challenges monolithic views of the war and creates a dialogue rather than a confrontation between the two disciplines. It shows how the selected narratives engage both with the writings of the trench poets and the preoccupations of their postmodern world in order to offer alternative perspectives on the war, exploring in the process complex issues regarding, among other things, the ethics of historical representation, traumatic memory, the politics of memory, and the significance of remembrance for later generations.

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