Format:
Online-Ressource (334 p)
ISBN:
9780773535077
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas v.47
Content:
Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: MEMORY AND MEDIA -- 1 Modern Memory -- 2 Mediated Memory -- PART TWO: CLASSICAL MEMORY: ORALITY AND LITERACY -- 3 Oral Memory and the Anger of Achilleus -- 4 Scripts of Empire: Remembering Virgil in Barometer Rising -- PART THREE: THE END OF THE BOOK AND THE BEGINNING OF CINEMA -- 5 Cinematic Memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- 6 "Spectral Images": The Double Vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- PART FOUR: PHOTO/PLAY: SEEING TIME AND (HEARING) RELATIVITY -- 7 Photographic Memory: "A Force of Interruption" in The Wars -- 8 A Play of Light: Dramatizing Relativity in R. H. Thomson's The Lost Boys -- PART FIVE: VIRTUAL PRESENCES: HISTORY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE -- 9 Electronic Memory: "A New Homeric Mode" on History Television -- 10 Sound Bytes in the Archive and the Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: MEMORY AND MEDIA""; ""1 Modern Memory""; ""2 Mediated Memory""; ""PART TWO: CLASSICAL MEMORY: ORALITY AND LITERACY""; ""3 Oral Memory and the Anger of Achilleus""; ""4 Scripts of Empire: Remembering Virgil in Barometer Rising""; ""PART THREE: THE END OF THE BOOK AND THE BEGINNING OF CINEMA""; ""5 Cinematic Memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison""; ""6 ""Spectral Images"": The Double Vision of Siegfried Sassoon""; ""PART FOUR: PHOTO/PLAY: SEEING TIME AND (HEARING) RELATIVITY""
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""7 Photographic Memory: ""A Force of Interruption"" in The Wars""""8 A Play of Light: Dramatizing Relativity in R. H. Thomson's The Lost Boys""; ""PART FIVE: VIRTUAL PRESENCES: HISTORY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE""; ""9 Electronic Memory: ""A New Homeric Mode"" on History Television""; ""10 Sound Bytes in the Archive and the Museum""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773576520
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773535077
Additional Edition:
Print version Media, Memory, and the First World War
Language:
English
Keywords:
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