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Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction
Author(s): Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 April 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 225 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781443837644
- ISBN-13: 9781443837644
Book Description
Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction is an in-depth analysis of the role of British war memorials in literature and film, in the wider context of the commemorative trend in contemporary culture. The Sheffield City Battalion Memorial, the Menin Gate Memorial, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, the Royal Artillery Memorial, and the Shot at Dawn Memorial are the focus of the discussion, which aims to show how the meanings assigned to specific war memorials create ideologically diverse interpretations of the British experience of the Great War, ranging from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. The epistemological ambivalence of the war memorial lies at the heart of the analysis of the selected novels, films and plays, for the condemnation of a military conflict as a historical evil does not necessarily exclude the possibility of honouring the men who fought in it.
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About the Author
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż received her MA and PhD from Warsaw University, where she now works at the Institute of English Studies. She is the author of The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945, as well as articles on contemporary prose fiction, poetry and film.
