The great war in post-memory literature and film / edited by Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż ; contributors, Jean Anderson [and twenty six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Löschnigg, Martin, editor.

Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena, editor.

Anderson, Jean, 1951- contributor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 18.

Media and Cultural Memory, 1613-8961 ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

World War, 1914-1918.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Collective memory and literature.

World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Collective memory and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Have you forgotten yet? ..."

Part 1: 'Entrenched'(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War

Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front / Norris, Margot

Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines / Perret, Caroline

It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War / Wilson, Ross J.

Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes / Briggs, Marlene A.

A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War / Skrebels, Paul

The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today's U.S. Veterans / Hawkins, Ty

Part 2: The Challenge of Form: How to 'Remember' the Great War?

The Two "All Quiets": Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues / Schneider, Thomas F.

"I shall lie broken against this broken earth": William March's Company K on the Screen / Paryż, Marek

The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter's War / Paris, Michael

"Like dying on a stage": Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War / Löschnigg, Martin

The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction / Malcolm, David

Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War / Fitzsimmons, Phil / Reynaud, Daniel

What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War / Anderson, Jean

Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories

Remembering The Wars / Grace, Sherrill

Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction / Teichler, Hanna

Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970's and 1980's / Spittel, Christina

Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century / Rhoden, Clare

National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema / Reynaud, Daniel

The "Lost Battalion" of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality / Slotkin, Richard

Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War / Cinquegrani, Maurizio

The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan's The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland / Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena

The Great War through 'Great October': 1914/1917 in Russian Memory / Brintlinger, Angela

Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War

"They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?": The First World War in Cold War Era Films / Buelens, Geert

Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory / Smith, Richard

Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign / Samson, Anne

Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers / Fahey, Alicia

Women and World War I: 'Postcolonial' Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War / Glaser, Brigitte Johanna

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Titles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110486001

3110486008

9783110391527

311039152X

9783110363029

311036302X

OCLC:

1013941023