Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World WarOxford University Press, 1996 M11 7 - 200 páginas The unprecedented magnitude of death during World War I forever altered how people perceived their world and how they represented those perceptions. In Postcards from the Trenches, Allyson Booth traces the complex relationship between British Great War culture and modernist writings. She shows that, through the experience of the Great War, both civilian and combatant modernist writers found that language could no longer represent experience. She goes on to identify and contextualize several of the resulting modernist tropes: she links the dissolving modernist self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust of factuality to the apparent inaccessibility of facts regarding the "rape of Belgium," and the modernist interest in multiple viewpoints to the singularity of perspective with which generals studied battlefield maps. Though her emphasis is on literary works by Robert Graves, E.M. Forster, and Vera Brittain, among others, Booth's analysis extends to memorials, posters, and architecture of the Great War. This interdisciplinary quality of Booth's study results in a much deeper understanding of how the Great War affected cultural representations and how that culture represented the War. |
Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
I THE SHAPES OF BODIES | 19 |
II THE SHAPES OF COUNTRIES | 65 |
III THE SHAPES OF OBJECTS | 123 |
Notes | 171 |
Works Cited | 175 |
183 | |
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Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space Between Modernism and the ... Allyson Booth Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
Términos y frases comunes
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