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Understanding the literature of World War I a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents /
Offers a literary analysis of a variety of fictional accounts of World War I, including "A Farewell to Arms" and "All Quiet on the Western Front," and provides excerpts from classical and scholarly resources to help place each work in its historical context.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2004.
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Series: | Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
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xix, 183 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Online Access: | Table of contents |
Contents:
- War at the front: Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929), Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), and Robert Grave's Goodbye to All That (1929)
- Women and the home front: Analysis of Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1922)
- War poetry and Pat Barker's Regeneration (1991)
- Strategic technology of modern warfare: Propaganda and civilian bombing
- Aftermath: Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night (1935), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), and Paul West's Love's Mansion (1992).