The Resource The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
Resource Information
The item The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film. Coving 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 cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections:. <ol> 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 </ol> 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 forstudying the modern period and war modules
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 590 pages)
- Contents
-
- Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals
- 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the great war / Jane Potter
- Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt
- One of ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock
- The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace' modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam
- The great war and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris
- Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell
- The poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain
- 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton
- American poets of World War II / Margot Norris
- Writing after Nuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge
- The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon
- The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart
- Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone
- Holocaust film / Barry Langford
- O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart
- The fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Piette
- Cold war films / Jonathan Auerbach
- Britain's small wars: domesticating 'emergency' / Lee Erwin
- The disappeared and the damned: duplicity, complicity and reality in the literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson
- Vietnam fictions / Mark A. Heberle
- 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese poetry on the Vietnam/American war / Subarno Chattarji
- Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'troubles' / Fran Brearton
- The literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley
- 'An uneven killing field': British literature and the former Yugoslavia / Andrew Hammond
- Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen
- War memorials / David Goldie
- Unsettled memory: a meditation on contested ground / Jane Creighton
- War, policing and surveillance: Pat Barker and the secret state / Jessica Meacham
- American psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell
- Pacifists and conscientious objectors / Ian Patterson
- The representation of refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and departure and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore / Sissy Helff
- 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': race in war literature / Mark W. Van Wienen
- A spy under every bed: espionage and popular literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury
- Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau
- Camouflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson
- Warplane / David Pascoe
- Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner
- Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison
- 'An ecstasy of fumbling': gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Das
- Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage
- World electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the séance in World War I / Jane Lewty
- The trenches / Allyson Booth
- Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice
- 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson
- Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second World War/ Leo Mellor
- The eight-week college of the age of extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox
- Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll
- Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed
- The children's war / Katie Trumpener
- The troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly
- Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. Maslen
- Visualising the transformations of war: war and art in the twentieth century / Roger Tolson
- Twentieth-century spy fiction / James Purdon
- 'Play up and play the game!': the narrative of war games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart
- War correspondence / Kate McLoughlin
- Thinking war / Nick Mansfield
- Isbn
- 9780748653911
- Label
- The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature
- Title
- The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
- Title variation
- Twentieth-century British and American war literature
- Subject
-
- 1900-1999
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern
- War in literature
- War in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film. Coving 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 cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections:. <ol> 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 </ol> 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 forstudying the modern period and war modules
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- Dewey number
- 820.93581
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR408.W37
- LC item number
- E35 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Piette, Adam
- Rawlinson, Mark
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- War in literature
- English literature
- American literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- English literature
- War in literature
- Label
- The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals -- 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the great war / Jane Potter -- Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt -- One of ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock -- The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace' modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam -- The great war and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris -- Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell -- The poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain -- 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton -- American poets of World War II / Margot Norris -- Writing after Nuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon -- The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart -- Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone -- Holocaust film / Barry Langford -- O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart -- The fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Piette -- Cold war films / Jonathan Auerbach -- Britain's small wars: domesticating 'emergency' / Lee Erwin -- The disappeared and the damned: duplicity, complicity and reality in the literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson -- Vietnam fictions / Mark A. Heberle -- 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese poetry on the Vietnam/American war / Subarno Chattarji -- Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'troubles' / Fran Brearton -- The literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley -- 'An uneven killing field': British literature and the former Yugoslavia / Andrew Hammond -- Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen -- War memorials / David Goldie -- Unsettled memory: a meditation on contested ground / Jane Creighton -- War, policing and surveillance: Pat Barker and the secret state / Jessica Meacham -- American psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell -- Pacifists and conscientious objectors / Ian Patterson -- The representation of refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and departure and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore / Sissy Helff -- 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': race in war literature / Mark W. Van Wienen -- A spy under every bed: espionage and popular literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury -- Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau -- Camouflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson -- Warplane / David Pascoe -- Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner -- Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison -- 'An ecstasy of fumbling': gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Das -- Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage -- World electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the séance in World War I / Jane Lewty -- The trenches / Allyson Booth -- Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice -- 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson -- Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second World War/ Leo Mellor -- The eight-week college of the age of extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox -- Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll -- Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed -- The children's war / Katie Trumpener -- The troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly -- Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. Maslen -- Visualising the transformations of war: war and art in the twentieth century / Roger Tolson -- Twentieth-century spy fiction / James Purdon -- 'Play up and play the game!': the narrative of war games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- War correspondence / Kate McLoughlin -- Thinking war / Nick Mansfield
- Control code
- 795695205
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 590 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780748653911
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1g020dp
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)795695205
- Label
- The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals -- 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the great war / Jane Potter -- Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt -- One of ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock -- The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace' modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam -- The great war and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris -- Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell -- The poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain -- 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton -- American poets of World War II / Margot Norris -- Writing after Nuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon -- The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart -- Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone -- Holocaust film / Barry Langford -- O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart -- The fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Piette -- Cold war films / Jonathan Auerbach -- Britain's small wars: domesticating 'emergency' / Lee Erwin -- The disappeared and the damned: duplicity, complicity and reality in the literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson -- Vietnam fictions / Mark A. Heberle -- 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese poetry on the Vietnam/American war / Subarno Chattarji -- Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'troubles' / Fran Brearton -- The literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley -- 'An uneven killing field': British literature and the former Yugoslavia / Andrew Hammond -- Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen -- War memorials / David Goldie -- Unsettled memory: a meditation on contested ground / Jane Creighton -- War, policing and surveillance: Pat Barker and the secret state / Jessica Meacham -- American psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell -- Pacifists and conscientious objectors / Ian Patterson -- The representation of refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and departure and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore / Sissy Helff -- 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': race in war literature / Mark W. Van Wienen -- A spy under every bed: espionage and popular literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury -- Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau -- Camouflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson -- Warplane / David Pascoe -- Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner -- Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison -- 'An ecstasy of fumbling': gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Das -- Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage -- World electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the séance in World War I / Jane Lewty -- The trenches / Allyson Booth -- Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice -- 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson -- Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second World War/ Leo Mellor -- The eight-week college of the age of extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox -- Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll -- Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed -- The children's war / Katie Trumpener -- The troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly -- Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. Maslen -- Visualising the transformations of war: war and art in the twentieth century / Roger Tolson -- Twentieth-century spy fiction / James Purdon -- 'Play up and play the game!': the narrative of war games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- War correspondence / Kate McLoughlin -- Thinking war / Nick Mansfield
- Control code
- 795695205
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 590 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780748653911
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1g020dp
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)795695205
Subject
- 1900-1999
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern
- War in literature
- War in literature
Genre
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-Edinburgh-companion-to-twentieth-century/MddNw4pk8cU/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-Edinburgh-companion-to-twentieth-century/MddNw4pk8cU/">The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-Edinburgh-companion-to-twentieth-century/MddNw4pk8cU/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-Edinburgh-companion-to-twentieth-century/MddNw4pk8cU/">The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature, edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
