The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521887550 ISBN 13: 9780521887557

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. 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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Marina MacKay is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521887550
• ISBN 13: 9780521887557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: MacKay Marina