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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & amp; US literature and film. Covering the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination. These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively covers the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. |
| Contents |
COVER; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: THE WARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Part I: Wars and their Literatures; 1 OCCASIONING PEACE: THREE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR; 2 'THE ESSENTIALLY MODERN ATTITUDE TOWARD WAR': ENGLISH POETRY OF THE GREAT WAR; 3 DEBATABLE GROUND: FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT IN BRITISH FIRST WORLD WAR PROSE FICTION; 4 ONE OF OURS IN CONTEXT: THE AMERICAN WORLD WAR I NOVEL; 5 THE 'MOANING OF THE WORLD' AND THE 'WORDS THAT BRING ME PEACE': MODERNISM AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; 6 THE GREAT WAR AND THE MOVING IMAGE: CINEMA AND MEMORY. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War in literature.
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War in literature. |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Piette, Adam.
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Rawlinson, Mark.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Piette, Adam. Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748638741 |
| ISBN |
9780748653911 (electronic book) |
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0748653910 (electronic book) |
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