Op werkdagen voor 23:00 besteld, morgen in huis Gratis verzending vanaf €20

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

The Great War in European Cultural History

Specificaties
Paperback, 322 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 1998
ISBN13: 9780521639880
Rubricering
Juridisch :
Cambridge University Press e druk, 1998 9780521639880
Onderdeel van serie Canto
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen

Samenvatting

Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914–18, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780521639880
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:322
Serie:Canto

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction; Part I. Catastrophe and Consolation: 1. Homecomings: the return of the dead; 2. Communities in mourning; 3. Spiritualism and the 'Lost Generation'; 4. War memorials and the mourning process; Part II. Cultural Codes and Languages of Mourning: 5. Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred; 6. The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory; 7. The apocalyptic imagination in war literature; 8. War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Net verschenen

Rubrieken

Populaire producten

    Personen

      Trefwoorden

        Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning