Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
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(Paperback - 25TH ANNIVERSARY)
- Pub. Date: March 2000
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 57,768
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2000
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Format: Paperback, 384pp
- Sales Rank: 57,768
- ISBN-13: 9780195133325
- ISBN: 0195133323
- Edition Number: 25
- Edition Description: 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Synopsis
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.
For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.
Biography
Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Hideous 20th Centuryby Anonymous
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March 09, 2001: Literary critic Paul Fussell located our century's literary and martial birth in the appalling British trenches of World War I in his insightful and thoroughly documented book, 'The Great War and Modern Memory.' He covers in detail the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves (of I, Claudius fame) and the poetry of Wilfred Owen, along with many others. We return to 1914, when there was no radio, no TV, no movies to speak of, and when the populace had implicit faith in their press, their King and 'progress.' The central irony of this book was that the population rushed to support the war in order to support these 19th century ideals, ideals which would be shattered in the war that gave birth to the twentieth century. Fussell documents how World War I gave us the standardized form, the wristwatch, daylight savings time, civilian censorship and bureaucratic euphemism--and for the first time, despair that technology was driving civilization into perpetual war. 'The Great War and Modern Memory' is probably one of the most significant academic works of the late 20th Century. Whether you agree with Fussell or not, you're bound to learn a lot--fortunately, his writing style is eminently comfortable.
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