The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780197266267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Santanu Das (Reader in English Literatur;Kate McLoughlin (Associate Professor of

Opis

The First World War both extends and departs from established understandings of wartime literature and culture. The compelling essays reconsider the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across a range of writers and artists, embedding the conflict in a broader, global understanding of 20th-century literature and culture.

Recenzje

This is a scholarly book which includes several intriguing black and white photos and artwork. All bibliographic references are included in the copious footnotes on each page, and an index concludes the text. A fascinating study for those interested in uncovering some overlooked aspects of the Great War through the eyes of modernism.

O autorze

Educated in Kolkata and Cambridge, Santanu Das teaches in the English Department at King's College London. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (2006) and Indian Troops in Europe, 1914-1918 (2014) and the editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing (2006). He has been involved in a number of centennial commemorative projects on the war, from radio and television programmes with the BBC to advising on concerts, exhibitions, and, most recently, dance-theatre. Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Glasgow. Her publications include CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015 (2018). She is the co-founding director of WAR-Net, an international, inter-disciplinary network of scholars working on war representation, and co-general editor of Edinburgh Critical Studies in War & Culture.