Author: Marina MacKayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Author: Marina MacKayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
Author: Vincent SherryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Author: Santanu DasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
Author: John N. DuvallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
Author: David LoewensteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108681522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945
Author: Jennifer AshtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766958
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Author: Marina MacKayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828452
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment
Author: Sarah EnsorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841902
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
Author: Graham BartramPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483926
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
Author: Walter KalaidjianPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.