The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

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Oxford University Press
01 April 2000

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History; European history; First World War

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.

For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.

By: Paul Fussell
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9780195133318
ISBN 10: 0195133315
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 April 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

A Satire Of Circumstance ; The Troglodyte World ; Adversary Proceedings ; Myth, Ritual, and Romance ; Oh What a Literary War ; Theater of War ; Arcadian Recourses ; Soldier Boys ; Persistence and Memory

Reviews for The Great War and Modern Memory

This book made a stir when it first came out in 1976. The author, a literary and social historian, looks at the impact of World War I on English and American literature. He moves from the enthusiasms of Rupert Brooke to the harsher realities of Sassoon and Graves, and goes on to show how notions and images of war have coloured common speech and imaginative writing down to the age of Amis and Heller. An interesting, though occasionally a maddening book. (Kirkus UK)