Beschreibung
This book provides close readings of late 20th-century British narratives of the First World War, written by both best-selling and less well-known fiction writers. Positioned at a mid-point between literary analysis and history, it shows that, by focusing on questions of memory, these narratives offer new and engaging perspectives on the war.
Autorenportrait
Virginie Renard received her PhD in Literature from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2009. She has published several articles on First World War fiction in English and French. She now teaches at the Haute École Charlemagne in Liège (Belgium).
Rezension
«This book succeeds triumphantly in its task. It offers a brilliant overview of this vital and contested field, together with an insightful and generous reading of the selected literary texts.»
(Toby Thacker, First World War Studies, Volume 7 Issue 2/2016)
Inhalt
Content: Setting the Framework. Memory, History, Fiction – The Story of a Myth – Older and Newer Stories of the Great War – Dialogue with the Poetic Forefathers – Re-imagining the Great War in the Age of Trauma – Memory Politics and Practices of Trauma in Pat Barker’s
Trilogy – The Trauma of Loss in Robert Edric’s
– Transgenerational Haunting in Pat Barker’s
– Metaphors of Remembrance – Sites of Memory.
