On war and writing
By: Samuel Hynes
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780226468785
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; History and criticism; War in literature; English literature; War and literature; Modern Literature; World War, 1939-1945; Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Two vocations --; title: At war with Ken Burns --; title: In the whirl and muddle of war --; title: War stories: myths of World War II --; title: A critic looks at war --; title: Hardy and the battle god --; title: Yeats's wars --; title: Ignorantly into war: Vera Brittain --; title: Rebecca West's The return of the soldier --; title: An introduction to Graeme West --; title: The odds on Edward Thomas --; title: E.E. Cummings's The enormous room --; title: Cecil Lewis's Sagittarius rising --; title: The death of landscape --; title: Verdun and back: a pilot's log.