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The Great War and Modern Memory

by Fussell, Paul
Published by : Oxford Univ. Press (New York) Physical details: 363 p. ISBN:45025. Year: 1975
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Includes Index




A satire of circumstance --
The troglodyte world --
Adversary proceedings --
Myth, ritual, and romance --
Oh what a literary war --
Theater of war --
Arcadian recourses --
Soldier boys --
Persistence and memory.

This book is 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.