Short Story and the First World War

Informationen zum Autor Ann-Marie Einhaus is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University. She is the co-editor of The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007) and has published articles on First World War writing, modernism and canonization in journals such as Literature and History, Modernist Cultures, and Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Klappentext Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War. Zusammenfassung Using a corpus of several hundred short stories that have not hitherto undergone any systematic critical analysis! this study challenges deeply embedded cultural conceptions about the literature of the First World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Canon, genre, experience, and their implied reader; 2. The war in the magazines; 3. Post-war publication and anthologisation; 4. Negotiating disaster in popular forms; 5. Narrative rehearsals of moral and ideological alternatives; 6. Commemorative narratives and post-war stories; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: ANN MARIE EINHAUS, Ann-Marie Einhaus, Ann-Marie (Northumbria University Einhaus, Einhaus Ann-Marie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107038431
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03843-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000