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The remembered dead : poetry, memory and the First World War / Sally Minogue, Andrew Palmer.
Van Pelt Library PR605.W65 M56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minogue, Sally, author.
- Palmer, Andrew, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and literature.
- History.
- Memorialization.
- War poetry.
- Great Britain.
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- War poetry--History and criticism.
- Death in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Grief in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Memorialization--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- War and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets struggled to meaningfully represent dying, death, and the trauma of witness, while responding to the pressing need for commemoration. The authors pay close attention to specific poems while maintaining a strong awareness of literary and philosophical contexts. The poems are discussed in relation to modernism and myth, other forms of commemoration (photographs, memorials), and theories of cultural memory. There is fresh analysis of canonical poets which, at the same time, challenges the confines of the canon by integrating discussion of lesser-known figures, including non-combatants and poets of later decades. The final chapter reaches beyond the war's centenary in a discussion of one remarkable commemoration of Wilfred Owen"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108428675
- 1108428673
- OCLC:
- 1013971788
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