| Author | : Marina MacKay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2009-01-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521887550 |
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
| Author | : Vincent Sherry |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2005-01-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139826980 |
The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
| Author | : Santanu Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-11-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107018234 |
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
| Author | : John N. Duvall |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521196310 |
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
| Author | : Sharon Monteith |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2013-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 110743467X |
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
| Author | : David Loewenstein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2021-10-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108681522 |
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
| Author | : Marina MacKay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2009-01-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828452 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
| Author | : Graham Bartram |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2004-04-05 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521483926 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture
| Author | : Eva Kolinsky |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521568708 |
One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.
