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Through chapters dedicated to specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War is a collection of essays examining literary responses to the Great War, particularly the confrontation of two distinct languages.
One of these reflects nineteenth-century ideals of war as a noble sacrifice; the other portrays the hopeless, brutal reality of the trenches.
The ultimate aim of this volume is to convey and reinforce the notion that no explicit literary language can ever be regarded as the definitive language of the Great War, nor can it ever hope to represent this conflict in its entirety. The collection also uncovers how memory constantly develops, triggering distinct and even contradictory responses from those involved in the complex process of remembering.
Contributors: Donna Coates, Brian Dillon, Monique Dumontet, Dorothea Flothow, Elizabeth Galway, Laurie Kaplan, Sara Martín Alegre, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, David Owen, Andrew Palmer, Bill Phillips, Cristina Pividori, Esther Pujolrás-Noguer, Richard Smith
One of these reflects nineteenth-century ideals of war as a noble sacrifice; the other portrays the hopeless, brutal reality of the trenches.
The ultimate aim of this volume is to convey and reinforce the notion that no explicit literary language can ever be regarded as the definitive language of the Great War, nor can it ever hope to represent this conflict in its entirety. The collection also uncovers how memory constantly develops, triggering distinct and even contradictory responses from those involved in the complex process of remembering.
Contributors: Donna Coates, Brian Dillon, Monique Dumontet, Dorothea Flothow, Elizabeth Galway, Laurie Kaplan, Sara Martín Alegre, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, David Owen, Andrew Palmer, Bill Phillips, Cristina Pividori, Esther Pujolrás-Noguer, Richard Smith
Price: $161.00
Pages: 262
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
31 March 2016
ISBN: 9789004314917
Format: Hardcover
David Owen, Ph.D, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is a lecturer in English at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has published principally on eighteenth-century English novelistic fiction, and, in this ambit, has edited early works by Jane Austen and Anna Maria Porter.
Cristina Pividori, Ph.D, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is a lecturer in English at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has published articles on the First World War, gender, trauma and memory.
Cristina Pividori, Ph.D, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is a lecturer in English at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has published articles on the First World War, gender, trauma and memory.