The Great War and Modern Memory - Hardcover

Fussell, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019215804X ISBN 13: 9780192158048

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1975

Synopsis

In this classic work Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which the Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this award-winning volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of an event that revolutionized the way we see the world. This book is intended for students, historians, andgeneral readers interested in the history of the Great War and its literature.

About this title

From the Publisher:

11 1.5-hour cassettes

About the Author:

Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 019215804X
• ISBN 13: 9780192158048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378