Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

Informationen zum Autor Marina MacKay is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis. Klappentext An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective! aimed at students of modern literature. Zusammenfassung This book provides the new reader with the essential knowledge and conceptual tools for reading the literature of World War II. With its chronology and guide to further reading! it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Marina MacKay; Part I. Anglo-American Texts and Contexts: 1. War poetry in Britain Adam Piette; 2. British fiction of the war Rod Mengham; 3. War poetry in the USA Margot Norris; 4. The American war novel James Dawes; 5. War journalism in English Leo Mellor; Part II. Global Perspectives: 6. The French war Debarati Sanyal; 7. The German war Dagmar Barnouw; 8. The Soviet war Katharine Hodgson; 9. The Italian war Robert S. C. Gordon; 10. The Japanese war Reiko Tachibana; 11. War writing in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand Donna Coates; Part III. Approaches and Revisions: 12. Women writers and the war Gill Plain; 13. Life writing and the Holocaust Phyllis Lassner; 14. Theories of trauma Lyndsey Stonebridge; 15. The war in contemporary fiction Petra Rau; Guide to further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Marina MacKay, MACKAY MARINA
• Assisted by: Marina MacKay (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521887557
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88755-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature & literary studies, Second World War, c 1940 to c 1949, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000