War beyond words languages of remembrance from the Great War to the present /
"What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in ou...
| Main Author: | Winter, J. M., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xxii, 234 pages, 58 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Vectors of memory
- Configuring war : the changing face of armed conflict
- Photographing war : soldiers' photographs and the revolution in violence since 1914
- Filming war
- Writing war
- Part II. Frameworks of memory
- Memory and the sacred: martyrdom in the 20th century and beyond
- The geometry of memory: horizontality and war memorials in the twentieth century and after
- War beyond words: shell shock, silence, and memories of war.