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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marina MacKay |
ISBN: | 9780521715416 0521715415 9780521887557 0521887550 |
OCLC Number: | 244767412 |
Description: | xix, 234 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | War poetry in Britain / Adam Piette -- British fiction of the war / Rod Mengham -- War poetry in the USA / Margot Norris -- The American war novel / James Dawes -- War journalism in English / Leo Mellor -- The French war / Debarati Sanyal -- The German war / Dagmar Barnouw -- The Soviet war / Katharine Hodgson -- The Italian war / Robert S.C. Gordon -- The Japanese war / Reiko Tachibana -- War writing in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand / Donna Coates -- Women writers and the war / Gill Plain -- Life writing and the Holocaust / Phyllis Lassner -- Theories of trauma / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- The war in contemporary fiction / Petra Rau. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to topics. |
Other Titles: | Literature of World War II |
Responsibility: | edited by Marina MacKay. |
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Abstract:
This book provides the new reader with the essential knowledge and conceptual tools for reading the literature of World War II. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.
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'This [is] a welcome book, which covers new and valuable ground. I doubt whether there is a comparable guide to such a vital and wide-ranging subject that performs its function so efficiently. ... ' Reference Reviews 'Marina MacKay's edited collection The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II offers a useful overview of global writings on that war. The slim volume features succinct articles on the prose and poetry of the most important warring nations.' English Studies Read more...
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