The Great War in post-memory literature and film
By: edited by Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Series: Media and Cultural Memory = -- Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung -- volume 18
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9783110362909; 9783110363029; 9783110391527
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Literature and the war; Modern Literature; History and criticism; Collective memory and literature; Motion pictures and the war; War films; Collective memory and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz and Martin Löschnigg: Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet?"; title: "Entrenched" Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War.  Margot Norris: Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front; title: Caroline Perret: Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines; title: Ross J. Wilson:  It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War; title: Marlene A. Briggs: Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes; title: Paul Skrebels:  A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War; title: Ty Hawkins: The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America; title: Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today's U.S. Veterans; title: The Challenge of Form: How to "Remember" the Great War. Thomas F. Schneider: The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues; title: Marek Paryz: "I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March's Company K on the Screen; title: Michael Paris: The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter's War; title: Martin Löschnigg: "Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War; title: David Malcolm:The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction; title: Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud: Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War; title: Jean Anderson: What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War; title: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories. Sherrill Grace: Remembering The Wars; title: Hanna Teichler: Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction; title: Christina Spittel: Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s; title: Clare Rhoden: Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century; title: Daniel Reynaud: National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema; title: Richard Slotkin: The "Lost Battalion" of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality; title: Maurizio Cinquegrani: Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War; title: Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz: The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland; title: Angela Brintlinger: The Great War through "Great October": 1914/1917 in Russian Memory; title: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War. Geert Buelens: They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?: The First World War in Cold War Era Films; title: Richard Smith: Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory; title: Anne Samson: Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign; title: Alicia Fahey: Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers; title: Brigitte Johanna Glaser : Women and World War I: "Postcolonial" Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War.