Name: The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature
Author: Adam Piette (Author, Editor), Mark Rawlinson (Author, Editor)
ISBN: 9780748638741

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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

Author(s): Adam Piette (Author, Editor), Mark Rawlinson (Author, Editor)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 7 Mar. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 600 pages
ISBN-10: 0748638741
ISBN-13: 9780748638741

Book Description

The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film. Covering the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination. These newly researched and innovative essays connect ‘high’ literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively covers the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections: 20th-Century Wars and Their Literatures; Bodies, Behaviours, Cultures; The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War; The Spaces of Modern War & Genres of War Culture. Key Features: * All-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historians. * Reflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume’s approach, structure and breadth of coverage. * For scholars: core arguments and detailed research topics. * For students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful for studying the modern period and war modules.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This superbly edited collection reminds us-and we still do need reminding-that wars are not so much punctual interruptions of recent history as its continuous lived reality. The essays collected here make for compulsive reading, affirming the rich resources of the literary intelligence when confronted by the systematic degradation of the human. –Professor Peter Nicholls, New York University

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AUTHOR-APPROVED Remarkably ambitious, richly satisfying, and wide ranging edited collection of essays that pretty much defines this emerging field of study. — Patrick Deer, The Space Between A monumental work, edited by two stalwarts of the subject, Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson. — Rebecca D Monte, The Year s Work in English Studies A substantial and formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible. — Richie McCaffery, Textualities.net This superbly edited collection reminds us and we still do need reminding that wars are not so much punctual interruptions of recent history as its continuous lived reality. The essays collected here make for compulsive reading, affirming the rich resources of the literary intelligence when confronted by the systematic degradation of the human. — Professor Peter Nicholls, New York UniversityTHE FIRST REFERENCE BOOK TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR, LITERATURE AND CULTUREIn fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children’s literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field.Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.

From the Back Cover

AUTHOR-APPROVED‘Remarkably ambitious, richly satisfying, and wide ranging edited collection of essays that pretty much defines this emerging field of study.’– Patrick Deer, The Space Between‘A monumental work, edited by two stalwarts of the subject, Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.’– Rebecca D’Monte, The Year’s Work in English Studies‘A substantial and formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible.’– Richie McCaffery, Textualities.net‘This superbly edited collection reminds us – and we still do need reminding – that wars are not so much punctual interruptions of recent history as its continuous lived reality. The essays collected here make for compulsive reading, affirming the rich resources of the literary intelligence when confronted by the systematic degradation of the human.’– Professor Peter Nicholls, New York UniversityTHE FIRST REFERENCE BOOK TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR, LITERATURE AND CULTUREIn fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children’s literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field.Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.

About the Author

Adam Piette is a Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarme, Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945. His latest book, The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009. Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (OUP, 2000); of the Norton Critical Edition of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange and of Pat Barker (forthcoming from Palgrave).

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