The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film 9783110363029, 9783110362909, 9783110486001

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The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film
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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commem

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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceive

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Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This

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This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers.

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Traces the portrayals of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in literary and cinematic narratives Re-examines the 1919 Egyptian

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Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experience

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Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular me

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Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great

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American Science Fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in

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