The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature [[electronic resource] /] / Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson |
Autore | Piette Adam |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.93581 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RawlinsonMark |
Collana | Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism War in literature War in literature - History and criticism - 20th century English literature - History and criticism - 20th century American literature |
ISBN |
1-78268-243-0
0-7486-5391-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
COVER; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: THE WARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Part I: Wars and their Literatures; 1 OCCASIONING PEACE: THREE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR; 2 'THE ESSENTIALLY MODERN ATTITUDE TOWARD WAR': ENGLISH POETRY OF THE GREAT WAR; 3 DEBATABLE GROUND: FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT IN BRITISH FIRST WORLD WAR PROSE FICTION; 4 ONE OF OURS IN CONTEXT: THE AMERICAN WORLD WAR I NOVEL; 5 THE 'MOANING OF THE WORLD' AND THE 'WORDS THAT BRING ME PEACE': MODERNISM AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; 6 THE GREAT WAR AND THE MOVING IMAGE: CINEMA AND MEMORY
7 IRISH WRITING OF INSURRECTION AND CIVIL WAR, 1916-398 THE POETRY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR; 9 'LUCID SONG': THE POETRY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR; 10 AMERICAN POETS OF WORLD WAR II; 11 WRITING AFTER NUREMBERG: THE JUDICIAL IMAGINATION IN THE AGE OF THE TRAUMA TRIAL; 12 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN AMERICAN FICTION; 13 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITISH DRAMA SINCE 1968; 14 HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY: UNDERSTANDING AND CRITICISM; 15 HOLOCAUST FILM; 16 O, DO NOT DREAM OF PEACE: AMERICAN POETRY OF THE KOREAN WAR; 17 THE FICTIONS OF NUCLEAR WAR, FROM HIROSHIMA TO VIETNAM; 18 COLD WAR FILMS 19 BRITAIN'S SMALL WARS: DOMESTICATING 'EMERGENCY'20 THE DISAPPEARED AND THEDAMNED: DUPLICITY, COMPLICITY AND REALITY IN THE LITERATURE OF THE PAX AMERICANA; 21 VIETNAM FICTIONS; 22 'WILL THERE BE PEACE AGAIN?': AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE POETRY ON THE VIETNAM/AMERICAN WAR; 23 POETRY AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND 'TROUBLES'; 24 THE LITERATURE OF THE FALKLANDS/MALVINAS WAR; 25 'AN UNEVEN KILLING FIELD': BRITISH LITERATURE AND THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA; 26 SACRIFICE AND THE SUBLIME SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001; Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures; INTRODUCTION: BODIES, BEHAVIOUR, CULTURES; 27 WAR MEMORIALS 28 UNSETTLED MEMORY: AMEDITATION ON CONTESTED GROUND29 WAR, POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE: PAT BARKER AND THE SECRET STATE; 30 AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY, WORLD WAR II AND THE KOREAN WAR; 31 PACIFISTS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS; 32 THE REPRESENTATION OF REFUGEES IN ARTHUR KOESTLER'S ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE AND CARYL PHILLIPS'S A DISTANT SHORE; 33 'THESE ROOMS / RUN INTO EACH OTHER LIKE TUNNELS / LEADING TO THE UNDERWORLD': RACE IN WAR LITERATURE; 34 A SPY UNDER EVERY BED: ESPIONAGE AND POPULAR LITERATURE FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR; 35 REFLECTIONS ON THE ENEMY: FROM EVIL NAZIS TO GOOD GERMANS Part III: TechnologyINTRODUCTION: TECHNOLOGY; 36 CAMOUFLAGE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF WARFARE; 37 WARPLANE; 38 MONSARRAT'S CORVETTES AND THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC; 39 SUBMARINE NOVELS 'AFTER HISTORY'; 40 'AN ECSTASY OF FUMBLING': GAS WARFARE, 1914-18 AND THE USES OF AFFECT; 41 PAUL VIRILIO AS TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY STRATEGIST: WAR, CINEMA AND THE LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION; 42 WORD ELECTRIC, SO FINITE: RADIO, POETRY AND THE SÉANCE IN WORLD WAR I; Part IV: Spaces; INTRODUCTION: SPACES; 43 THE TRENCHES; 44 LITERATURE OF THE CAMPS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 45 'THAT FIGHTING WAS A LONG WAY OFF ': DESERT AND JUNGLE WAR POEMS |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790235603321 |
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L'Antartide nell'immaginario inglese : spazio geografico e rappresentazione letteraria / / Nicoletta Brazzelli |
Autore | Brazzelli Nicoletta |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ledizioni, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Collana | Di/segni L'Antartide nell'immaginario inglese |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism - 20th century
Antarctica in literature English Literature English Languages & Literatures |
Soggetto non controllato |
Antartide
inglese |
ISBN | 88-5526-033-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136407503321 |
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Ledizioni, 2015 | ||
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Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized |
Autore | Sell Roger D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001 |
Disciplina | 820.9/00071 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism - 20th century
American poetry - History and criticism Literature - Study and teaching English Languages & Literatures English Literature |
ISBN |
9786612162299
90-272-9795-9 90-272-2582-6 1-282-16229-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454642703321 |
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Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized |
Autore | Sell Roger D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001 |
Disciplina | 820.9/00071 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism - 20th century
American poetry - History and criticism Literature - Study and teaching English Languages & Literatures English Literature |
ISBN |
9786612162299
90-272-9795-9 90-272-2582-6 1-282-16229-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782036803321 |
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Special relationships [[electronic resource] ] : Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936 |
Autore | Brennan Maeve |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina |
810.9/004
820.9008 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature
American literature - History and criticism English literature Literature, Comparative American literature - History and criticism - 19th century English literature - History and criticism - 20th century English literature - History and criticism Comparative literature - American and English Comparative literature - English and American American literature - English influences English literature - American influences English Literature American Literature English Languages & Literatures |
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Alfred North Whitehead
Bolton Whitman Fellowship Britain's foreign policy British governments George Eliot Gertrude Stein Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry James Highland Clearances Mark Twain New England farm life Picasso Sarah Orne Jewett Walter Scott hegemonic US post-Second World War British governments transatlantic literary network working-class portrait |
ISBN |
1-5261-3765-8
1-84779-012-7 1-4175-6932-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett; 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning; 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman; 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford; 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis; 5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett; 6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel
7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub; 9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann; 10 'Embattled tendencies':Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin; 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate FullbrookIndex |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996213399503316 |
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