368 pages
English language
Published Sept. 19, 2000 by Oxford University Press.
The Great War and modern memory
by Paul Fussell
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This book is a landmark study about the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and some of the literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the trench experience itself.-Pref.
Subjects
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
- Memory in literature
- War and literature