Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
BRITISH POETRY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS: VISIONS OF CONFLICT BRITISH POETRY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS: VISIONS OF CONFLICT SIMON BAINBRIDGE ix, 259 pages ; 23 cm OL13615082W
Media, memory, and the First World War Media, memory, and the First World War David Williams Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams sh… OL14990331W
Words for war Words for war Oksana Maksymchuk,Max Rosochinsky "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this … OL19761718W
Authoring war Authoring war Catherine Mary McLoughlin "Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide … OL19829118W
Writing the Yugoslav Wars Writing the Yugoslav Wars Dragana Obradovi? In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradovi? analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region?s literary culture. Obradovi? argues that the crisis of the country?s disintegratio… OL20931681W
Poetry after Auschwitz Poetry after Auschwitz Susan Gubar "In this study Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the pres… OL38940W
Fiction as fact Fiction as fact Neil Longley York "Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson led a cavalry expedition that General Ulysses S. Grant hoped would distract Confederate forces while the Union army made its move toward Vicksburg. In the spring of 1… OL3899872W
Luftkrieg und Literatur Luftkrieg und Literatur W. G. Sebald W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001. On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowin… OL46618W
Journey to the trenches Journey to the trenches Cohen, Joseph When Isaac Rosenberg was killed in action on the Western Front in April 1918, the world lost one of the most striking talents of that ill-fated generation. He differed from Wilfred Owen and Siegfried… OL4780068W
The Great War and Modern Memory The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell In this classic work, Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which The Great War has been remembered, conv… OL478876W