The First World War both extends and departs from established understandings of wartime literature and culture. The compelling essays reconsider the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across a range of writers and artists, embedding the conflict in a broader, global understanding of 20th-century literature and culture.
The First World War both extends and departs from established understandings of wartime literature and culture. The compelling essays reconsider the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across a range of writers and artists, embedding the conflict in a broader, global understanding of 20th-century literature and culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Educated in Kolkata and Cambridge, Santanu Das teaches in the English Department at King's College London. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (2006) and Indian Troops in Europe, 1914-1918 (2014) and the editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing (2006). He has been involved in a number of centennial commemorative projects on the war, from radio and television programmes with the BBC to advising on concerts, exhibitions, and, most recently, dance-theatre. Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Glasgow. Her publications include CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015 (2018). She is the co-founding director of WAR-Net, an international, inter-disciplinary network of scholars working on war representation, and co-general editor of Edinburgh Critical Studies in War & Culture.
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* List of figures * Notes on contributors * Preface and acknowledgements * Introduction * Part One: Unfathomable * 1: Kate McLoughlin: Three War Veterans Who Don't Tell War Stories * 2: Hope Wolf: Scaling War: Poetic Calibration and Mythic Measures in David Jones's In Parenthesis * 3: Vincent Sherry: Imbalances: Mass Death and the Economy of 'Sacrifice' in the Great War * Part Two: Scoping the War * 4: Sarah Cole: Civilians Writing the War: Metaphor, Proximity, Action * 5: Laura Marcus: First World War Film and the Face of Death * 6: Christine Froula: The Zeppelin in the Sky of the Mind * 7: Mark Rawlinson: Dissent and the Literature of the First World War: Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson * Part Three: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies'? * 8: Jahan Ramazani: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies': Poetry of the First Global War * 9: Margaret Higonnet: Maternal Cosmopoetics: Käthe Kollwitz and European Women Poets of the First World War * 10: Claire Buck: Encountering War, Encountering Others * 11: Santanu Das: Entangled Emotions: Race, Encounters and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism * Index
* List of figures * Notes on contributors * Preface and acknowledgements * Introduction * Part One: Unfathomable * 1: Kate McLoughlin: Three War Veterans Who Don't Tell War Stories * 2: Hope Wolf: Scaling War: Poetic Calibration and Mythic Measures in David Jones's In Parenthesis * 3: Vincent Sherry: Imbalances: Mass Death and the Economy of 'Sacrifice' in the Great War * Part Two: Scoping the War * 4: Sarah Cole: Civilians Writing the War: Metaphor, Proximity, Action * 5: Laura Marcus: First World War Film and the Face of Death * 6: Christine Froula: The Zeppelin in the Sky of the Mind * 7: Mark Rawlinson: Dissent and the Literature of the First World War: Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson * Part Three: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies'? * 8: Jahan Ramazani: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies': Poetry of the First Global War * 9: Margaret Higonnet: Maternal Cosmopoetics: Käthe Kollwitz and European Women Poets of the First World War * 10: Claire Buck: Encountering War, Encountering Others * 11: Santanu Das: Entangled Emotions: Race, Encounters and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism * Index
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