دانلود کتاب The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered: Beyond Modern Memory

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Textuality and War......Page 22
1 Beyond Fiction? The Example of Winged Warfare (1918)......Page 24
2 Literary Images of Vicarious Warfare: British Newspapers and the Origin of the First World War, 1899–1914......Page 39
Part II: Beyond the Trenches......Page 50
3 Encoded Enclosures: the Wartime Novels of Stella Benson......Page 52
4 The Self in Conflict: May Sinclair and the Great War......Page 70
5 ‘Lives Mocked at by Chance’: Contradictory Impulses in Women’s Poetry of the Great War......Page 82
6 ‘The Huge Gun with Its One Blind Eye’: Scale and the War Poetry and Writings of Harriet Monroe......Page 92
Part III: Nationality and Response......Page 106
7 French Women Poets Respond to the Great War......Page 108
8 Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women’s Fictional Responses to the Great War......Page 128
9 ‘Dear, Tender-Hearted, Uncomprehending America’: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s and Edith Wharton’s Fictional Responses to the First World War......Page 158
Part IV: Modernists at War......Page 172
10 Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and the First World War......Page 174
11 Artistry and Primitivism in The Enormous Room......Page 187
Part V: Revising the War Poets......Page 202
12 Mother’s Boy and Stationmaster’s Son: the Problem of Class in the Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen......Page 204
13 The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen: a Dissenting Reappraisal......Page 220
14 ‘Thoughts That You’ve Gagged All Day’: Siegfried Sassoon, W. H. R. Rivers and ‘[The] Repression of War Experience’......Page 234
15 Siegfried Sassoon: the Legacy of the Great War......Page 245
Index......Page 254