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The short story and the First World War / Ann-Marie Einhaus, Northumbria University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Einhaus, Ann-Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Short stories, English--History and criticism.
- Short stories, English.
- War stories, English--History and criticism.
- War stories, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- The Short Story & the First World War
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The poetry of the First World War has come to dominate our understanding of its literature, while genres such as the short story, which are just as vital to the literary heritage of the era, have largely been neglected. In this study, Ann-Marie Einhaus challenges deeply embedded cultural conceptions about the literature of the First World War using a corpus of several hundred short stories that, until now, have not undergone any systematic critical analysis. From early wartime stories to late twentieth-century narratives - and spanning a wide spectrum of literary styles and movements - Einhaus's work reveals a range of responses to the war through fiction, from pacifism to militarism. Going beyond the household names of Owen, Sassoon and Graves, Einhaus offers scholars and students unprecedented access to new frontiers in twentieth-century literary studies.
- Contents:
- Canon, genre, experience, and the implied reader
- The war in the magazines
- Post-war publication and anthologisation
- Negotiating disaster in popular forms
- Narrative rehearsals of moral and ideological alternatives
- Commemorative narratives and post-war stories.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-89185-5
- 1-107-27277-7
- 1-107-27209-2
- 1-107-27542-3
- 1-139-81489-3
- 1-107-27867-8
- 1-107-27418-4
- 1-107-27744-2
- OCLC:
- 857364835
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