Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War - Hardcover

Booth, Allyson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195102118 ISBN 13: 9780195102116

Verlag: OUP USA, 1997

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Booth offers a complex portrait of the relation between British Great War culture and modernist writings. She notes that unlike civilians, modernist writers and combatants shared a concern with the divide between language and experience, and draws connections between the sensibility of the modernist writer and the soldier, particularly regarding efforts to describe dying and the dead. Her analysis extends to memorials, posters, and architecture of the Great War, though her emphasis is on literary works by Robert Graves, E.M. Forster, Vera Brittain, and others.

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Allyson Booth is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.

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In Postcards from the Trenches, Allyson Booth traces the complex relationship between British Great War culture and modernist literature and architecture. By drawing on a wide range of materials and attending to the places where they overlap, Booth uncovers ways in which modernism is deeply embedded in a broader Great War culture. She links, for example, the modernist representation of an unstable self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust for fact to the competing nationalist discourses of August 1914, and the modernist description of buildings as having shaken off the past to a desire to forget the war. Booth argues that the dislocations of war often figure centrally in modernist forms even when the war itself seems peripheral to modernist content. Thus she suggests that soldiers experienced the Great War as strangely modernist and that modernism itself is strangely haunted by the Great War.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195102118
• ISBN 13: 9780195102116
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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