The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

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ID19925680
EditorsMartin Loschnigg (0000-0003-1330-7880), Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż (0000-0001-6775-9327)
Year2014
Pages459
Publication date2014-09-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Great War in post-memory literature and film (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110363029
OpenAlexW2479188782
ISBN9783110363029
Open LibraryOL31034733M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · 1914-1918 · 20th century · Collective memory and literature · Collective memory and motion pictures · Film criticism · History and criticism · Literature and the war · Literature, Modern · Literature, modern, history and criticism · Modern Literature · Motion pictures and the war · War films · World War · World war, literature and the war

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