The Great War and modern memory / Paul Fussell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

War and literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 363 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Oxford University Press, 1975.

Summary:

In this classic work, Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which The Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized.

Contents:

A satire of circumstance

The troglodyte world

Adversary proceedings

Myth, ritual, and romance

Oh what a literary war

Theater of war

Arcadian recourses

Soldier boys

Persistence and memory.

Notes:

"This book is 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 rench experience itself."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy has page marked with post-it.

ISBN:

0195019180 :

OCLC:

1631561