Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Piette, Adam; Rawlinson, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-centuryEnglish & US literature and film

Coving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, theTroubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influenceof modern wars on the imagination.

These newly researched and innovative essays connect ''high'' literary studies to theengagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and culturalevaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction.

Divided into 5 sections:

1. 20th-Century Wars and Their Literatures
2. Bodies, Behaviours, Cultures
3. The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War
4. The Spaces of Modern War
5. Genres of War Culture

Key Features

• All-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historians
• Reflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume''s approach, structure and breadth of coverage
• For scholars: core arguments and detailed research topics
• For students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748653935
• Artikelnr.: 56903935

Autorenporträt

Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945. His latest book, The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009. Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (OUP, 2000); of the Norton Critical Edition of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and of Pat Barker (forthcoming from Palgrave).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations; Illustrations acknowledgements; Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century; Part I: Wars and their Literatures; 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War
Helen Goethals
Université Lyon 2; 2. 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English Poetry of the Great War
Jane Potter
; 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction
Sharon Ouditt
Nottingham Trent; 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel
Jennifer Haytock
SUNY College at Brockport; 5. The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace': Modernism and the First World War
Sara Haslam
Open University; 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory
Michael Paris
University of Central Lancashire; 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War
1916-39
Matthew Campbell
University of Sheffield; 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War
James Fountain; 9. 'Lucid Song': The Poetry of the Second World War
Jonathan Bolton
Auburn University; 10.American Poets of World War II
Margot Norris
University of California
Irvine; 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial
Lyndsey Stonebridge; 12. The Second World War in American Fiction
John Limon; 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968
Victoria Stewart
University of Leicester; 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism
Bob Eaglestone
Royal Holloway; 15. Holocaust Film
Barry Langford; 16. O
Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War; William D. Ehrhart
Columbia University; The Fictions of Nuclear War
from Hiroshima to Vietnam
Adam Piette; 18. Cold War Films
Jonathan Auerbach
University of Maryland; 19. Britain's Small Wars: Domesticating 'Emergency'
Lee Erwin; 20.The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity
Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana
Kris Anderson; 21. Vietnam Fictions
Mark A. Heberle; 22. 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War
Subarno Chattarji
University of Swansea; 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles'
Fran Brearton; 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War
Jon Begley
Bishop Grosseteste University College
Lincoln; 25. 'An Uneven Killing Field': British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia
Andrew Hammond
Swansea Institute
University of Wales; 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001
Alex Houen
University of Cambridge; Part II: Bodies
Behaviour
Cultures; Introduction: Bodies
Behaviour
Cultures; 27. War Memorials; David Goldie
University of Strathclyde; 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground
Jane Creighton
University of Houston-Downtown; 29. War
Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State
Jessica Meacham; 30. American Psychiatry
World War II and the Korean War
Martin Halliwell; 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectorsm
Ian Patterson
University of Cambridge; 32.The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
Sissy Helff; 33. 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': Race in War Literature
Mark W. Van Wienen
Northern Illinois; 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War
Celia M. Kingsbury
University of Central Missouri; 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans
Petra Rau; Part III: Technology; Introduction: Technology; 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare
Mark Rawlinson; 37. Warplane
David Pascoe
University of Utrecht; 38. Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic
Jonathan Rayner
University of Sheffield; 39. Submarine Novels 'After History'
Hamish Mathison
University of Sheffield; 40. 'An ecstasy of fumbling': Gas Warfare
1914-18 and the Uses of Affect
Santanu Das
Queen Mary College
London; 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War
Cinema and the Logistics of Perception
John Armitage; Word Electric
So Finite: Radio
Poetry and the Séance in World War I
Jane Lewty; Part IV: Spaces; Introduction: Spaces; 43. The Trenches
Allyson Booth; 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War
Sue Vice
University of Sheffield; 45. 'That fighting was a long way off': Desert and Jungle War Poems
Peter Robinson
University of Reading; 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War
Leo Mellor
New Hall
University of Cambridge; 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground
Glyn Salton-Cox; Part V: Genres; Introduction: Genres; 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill
Julia Boll; 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction
David Seed
University of Liverpool; 50. The Children's War
Katie Trumpener; 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland
Political Violence and the Peace Process
Aaron Kelly; 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War
R. W. Maslen; 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century
Roger Tolson
Imperial War Museum
London; 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction
James Purdon; 55. 'Play Up and Play the Game!': The Narrative of War Games
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
SMARTlab
University of East London; 56. War Correspondence; Kate McLoughlin
Birkbeck; 57. Thinking War
Nick Mansfield
Macquarie University; Notes on contributors; Index.