The Great War and modern memory / Paul Fussell.
By: Fussell, Paul.
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Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | PR478.E8 F8 2000 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000002330306 |
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
Contains a new afterword.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-359) and index.
This book is a landmark study about the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and some of the literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the trench experience itself.-Pref.
1. A satire of circumstance -- 2. The troglodyte world -- 3. Adversary proceedings -- 4. Myth, ritual, and romance -- 5. Oh what a literary war -- 6. Theater of war --7. Arcadian recourses -- 8. Soldier boys -- 9. Persistence and memory.
National Book Award, 1976: Nonfiction
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