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The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Paul Fussell

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The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.

For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 2nd, 2000
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Anniversary - 0025
  • Dimensions: 9.12in - 5.56in - 1.21in - 1.36lb
  • EAN: 9780195133318
  • Categories: • Wars & Conflicts - World War I• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• American - General

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About the Author

Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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"One of the best nonfiction works I've ever read. I'm a huge fan of virtually everything Fussell has ever done, but this unique book, which uses literature and social history to examine World War I, may be his best. Unflinching."--James Gray, he Week"Literary and historical materials, in themselves not unfamiliar, are brought together in a probing, sympathetic, and finally illuminating fashion. It is difficult to think of a scholarly work in recent years that has more deeply engaged the reader at both the intellectual and emotional level."--The New Republic (on the previous edition)

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