Format:
Online-Ressource (VII, 459 S.)
ISBN:
9783110391527
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9783110363029
Series Statement:
Media and Cultural Memory 18
Content:
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 the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations.
Content:
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 the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations
Content:
Biographical note: Marzena Soko?owska-Pary?, University of Warsaw, Poland; Martin Löschnigg, University of Graz, Austria.. - 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 the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations.. - 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 the war, emphasizing the historical, socio-political, gender-oriented and post-colonial contexts of its cultural representations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet? …"; Part 1: 'Entrenched'(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War; Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front; Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines; It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War; Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes; A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War
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The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today's U.S. VeteransPart 2: The Challenge of Form: How to 'Remember' the Great War?; The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues; "I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March's Company K on the Screen; The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter's War; "Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War
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The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical FictionComics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War; What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War; Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories; Remembering The Wars; Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction; Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s; Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century
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National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac CinemaThe "Lost Battalion" of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality; Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War; The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland; The Great War through 'Great October': 1914/1917 in Russian Memory; Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War
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"They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?": The First World War in Cold War Era FilmsPost-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory; Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign; Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers; Women and World War I: 'Postcolonial' Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War; Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Titles
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110362909
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Great War in post-memory literature and film
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Great War in post-memory literature and film Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014 ISBN 3110362902
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110486001
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110362909
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
Erster Weltkrieg
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Literatur
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Film
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Geschichte
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110363029
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Author information:
Löschnigg, Martin 19XX-
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