This international collection of essays gives fresh insight into the lives and perspectives of the modernist authors who lived and wrote in the shadow of war. These essays offer a link through wartime experience, as the fragmented, violent, and traumatic period demanded unique forms of expression.
This international collection of essays gives fresh insight into the lives and perspectives of the modernist authors who lived and wrote in the shadow of war. These essays offer a link through wartime experience, as the fragmented, violent, and traumatic period demanded unique forms of expression.
Nanette Norris is assistant professor of English at Royal Military College Saint-Jean.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Great War Modernism Nanette Norris Section One: Non-Combatant Responses - Nostalgia, Legacies, and Recuperations Homeric Cheeses and the Breast of a Decrepit Nurse: Ruskin and Marinetti on Art, War, and Peace Michael J. K. Walsh The Irrepressible Conflict: The Southern Agrarians and World War One David A. Davis "A Reconstructionary Tale": Ford Madox Ford's Georgic Response to World War One Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy Non-Combatancy, Narrative, and Henry Green's Pack My Bag Taryn Okuma Painting Abstraction/Observing Destruction at the Front Graeme Stout Section Two: High Modernists and the Shock of War World War I and Messianic Voids in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Camelia Raghinaru H. D. and the Secrets of Redemption Nanette Norris Violence and Laughter in Women in Love Joyce Wexler You Give Them Money, They Give You a Stuffed Dog: Modernism and Survival in The Sun Also Rises Gregory M. Dandeles Section Three: Soldiers and Soldiering Anonymity, Transnational Identity, and A German Deserter's War Experience Erika Kuhlman Rosenberg's Half-Life between Romanticism and Modernism James Brown From Drills to Dreams: "Making the Mould" of Retreat in John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers Matthew David Perry A Necessary Aesthetics: Modernism's Role in Stabilizing War Narratives Through Poetry ¿ David Jones to Brian Turner (and Beyond) Travis L. Martin Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Great War Modernism Nanette Norris Section One: Non-Combatant Responses - Nostalgia, Legacies, and Recuperations Homeric Cheeses and the Breast of a Decrepit Nurse: Ruskin and Marinetti on Art, War, and Peace Michael J. K. Walsh The Irrepressible Conflict: The Southern Agrarians and World War One David A. Davis "A Reconstructionary Tale": Ford Madox Ford's Georgic Response to World War One Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy Non-Combatancy, Narrative, and Henry Green's Pack My Bag Taryn Okuma Painting Abstraction/Observing Destruction at the Front Graeme Stout Section Two: High Modernists and the Shock of War World War I and Messianic Voids in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Camelia Raghinaru H. D. and the Secrets of Redemption Nanette Norris Violence and Laughter in Women in Love Joyce Wexler You Give Them Money, They Give You a Stuffed Dog: Modernism and Survival in The Sun Also Rises Gregory M. Dandeles Section Three: Soldiers and Soldiering Anonymity, Transnational Identity, and A German Deserter's War Experience Erika Kuhlman Rosenberg's Half-Life between Romanticism and Modernism James Brown From Drills to Dreams: "Making the Mould" of Retreat in John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers Matthew David Perry A Necessary Aesthetics: Modernism's Role in Stabilizing War Narratives Through Poetry ¿ David Jones to Brian Turner (and Beyond) Travis L. Martin Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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