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Informationen zum Autor Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945. His latest book, The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009. Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (OUP, 2000); of the Norton Critical Edition of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and of Pat Barker (forthcoming from Palgrave). Klappentext AUTHOR-APPROVED'Remarkably ambitious, richly satisfying, and wide ranging edited collection of essays that pretty much defines this emerging field of study.'-- Patrick Deer, The Space Between'A monumental work, edited by two stalwarts of the subject, Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.'-- Rebecca D'Monte, The Year's Work in English Studies'A substantial and formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible.'-- Richie McCaffery, Textualities.net'This superbly edited collection reminds us - and we still do need reminding - that wars are not so much punctual interruptions of recent history as its continuous lived reality. The essays collected here make for compulsive reading, affirming the rich resources of the literary intelligence when confronted by the systematic degradation of the human.'-- Professor Peter Nicholls, New York UniversityTHE FIRST REFERENCE BOOK TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR, LITERATURE AND CULTUREIn fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children's literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field.Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. Zusammenfassung The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Illustrations acknowledgements; Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century; Part I: Wars and their Literatures; 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War, Helen Goethals, Université Lyon 2; 2. 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English Poetry of the Great War, Jane Potter, ; 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction, Sharon Ouditt, Nottingham Trent; 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel, Jennifer Haytock, SUNY College at Brockport; 5. The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace': Modernism and the First World War, Sara Haslam, Open University; 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory, Michael Paris, University of Central Lancashire; 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916-39, Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield; 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War, James Fountain; 9. 'Lucid Song': The Poetry of the Second World War, Jonathan Bolton, Auburn University; 10.American Poets of World War II, Margot Norris, U...
