Media, Memory, and the First World War

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 3

Part 1 Memory and Media

1 Modern Memory 17

2 Mediated Memory 33

Part 2 Classical Memory: Orality and Literacy

3 Oral Memory and the Anger of Achilleus 53

4 Scripts of Empire: Remembering Virgil in Barometer Rising 72

Part 3 The End of the Book and the Beginning of Cinema

5 Cinematic Memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison 103

6 "Spectral Images": The Double Vision of Siegfried Sassoon 138

Part 4 Photo / Play: Seeing Time and (Hearing) Relativity

7 Photographic Memory: "A Force of Interruption" in The Wars 161

8 A Play of Light: Dramatizing Relativity in R. H. Thomson's The Lost Boys 182

Part 5 Virtual Presences: History in the Electronic Age

9 Electronic Memory: "A New Homeric Mode" on History Television 205

10 Sound Bytes in the Archive and the Museum 237

Conclusion 269

Notes 285

Works Cited 297

Index 307