The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

Published by De Gruyter 2014

The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

Edited by: Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

Volume 18 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110363029

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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

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Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, University of Warsaw, Poland;
Martin Löschnigg, University of Graz, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: “Have you forgotten yet? …” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: ‘Entrenched’(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War
Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front Margot Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines Caroline Perret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War Ross J. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes Marlene A. Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War Paul Skrebels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today’s U.S. Veterans Ty Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part 2: The Challenge of Form: How to ‘Remember’ the Great War?
The Two “All Quiets”: Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues Thomas F. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
“I shall lie broken against this broken earth”: William March’s Company K on the Screen Marek Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter’s War Michael Paris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
“Like dying on a stage”: Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction David Malcolm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War Jean Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories
Remembering The Wars Sherrill Grace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction Hanna Teichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s Christina Spittel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century Clare Rhoden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema Daniel Reynaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The “Lost Battalion” of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality Richard Slotkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War Maurizio Cinquegrani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan’s The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
The Great War through ‘Great October’: 1914/1917 in Russian Memory Angela Brintlinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War
“They wouldn’t end it with any of us alive, now would they?”: The First World War in Cold War Era Films Geert Buelens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory Richard Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign Anne Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers Alicia Fahey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Women and World War I: ‘Postcolonial’ Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War Brigitte Johanna Glaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Index of Titles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: General readers interested in cultural history, war literature, war film
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 459
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: World War I; cultural memory; war literature; war film.

eBook

Published: October 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110363029

Hardcover

Published: September 15, 2014
ISBN: 9783110362909

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110486001