Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History

by Jay Winter

Overview

This powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history. A book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139949804
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2014
Series:	Canto Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Catastrophe and Consolation: 1. Homecomings: the return of the dead; 2. Communities in mourning; 3. Spiritualism and the 'Lost Generation'; 4. War memorials and the mourning process; Part II. Cultural Codes and Languages of Mourning: 5. Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred; 6. The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory; 7. The apocalyptic imagination in war literature; 8. War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'No one interested in the broad impact of the First World War, or the cultural history of the twentieth century, can afford to neglect this book.' The Times Literary Supplement

'One seldom puts down a work of history with such a feeling of having penetrated to the bedrock of emotions that inspired a time that now seems very far away, very different, and very past.' The Journal of Modern History

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