The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature EPUB

Edited by Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson

Part of the Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities series

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Description

The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-centuryEnglish & US literature and film

Coving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, theTroubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influenceof modern wars on the imagination.

These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to theengagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and culturalevaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction.

Divided into 5 sections:

20th-Century Wars and Their Literatures
Bodies, Behaviours, Cultures
The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War
The Spaces of Modern War
Genres of War Culture

Key Features

All-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historians
Reflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume's approach, structure and breadth of coverage
For scholars: core arguments and detailed research topics
For students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules