The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War

ISBN-13: 9781108450874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 245 str.

Sally Minogue; Andrew Palmer

Opis

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

Recenzje

'The Remembered Dead is a study of 'the ways those who died in the First World War have been commemorated in poetry'. The authors find many new perspectives and plunge in with some close reading of Walt Whitman, immediately offering depth but also welcome breadth.' John Greening, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. 'But you are dead!': early struggles over representation; 2. 'The world's worst wound': death, consciousness and modernism; 3. 'Fierce imaginings': the radical myth-making of David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg; 4. Memorial poems and the poetics of memorialising; 5. 'Disquieting matter': the unburied corpse in war poetry; 6. 'Horrors here smile': the poem, the photograph and the punctum; 7. Dulce et Decorum Est.