The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-11-048600-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 459 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sokolowska-Paryz, Marzena

Löschnigg, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, University of Warsaw, Poland;
Martin Löschnigg, University of Graz, Austria.