Title: The Great War and modern memory /
Authors: Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front; English literature History and criticism; World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Literature and the war; Memory in literature.; War and literature.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.