PDF War Poetry Download
- Author: Simon Featherstone
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN: 9780415077507
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 316
A major anthology combined with substantial introductory material.
Twentieth-Century War Poetry
PDF Twentieth-Century War Poetry Download
- Author: Philippa Lyon
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN: 0230209122
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 188
Poets have written about wars throughout the 20th century - questioning, protesting and, sometimes, celebrating the nature and purpose of conflict. Attracting an enthusiastic popular readership, war poetry has often been seen as a way of remembering and re-imagining wars. Today, war poems are not only part of our memorial culture, on epitaphs and in Remembrance Day services, but have inspired books and films and become studied widely around the world. This Guide examines the genesis and development of the important genre of war poetry in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the role of the two world wars in the literary and cultural construction of a 'war poetry' category. Philippa Lyon draws upon a range of key historical and contemporary critical responses, from poetic memoir and journalism to sophisticated academic criticism, to demonstrate the rich diversity of expectations and evaluations elicited by the developing genre.
The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry
PDF The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry Download
- Author: Tim Kendall
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 0191569372
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 771
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe. The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.
Modern English War Poetry
PDF Modern English War Poetry Download
- Author: Tim Kendall
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 0199276765
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 285
Modern English War Poetry ranges widely across the twentieth century, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the most important poets of the period. It emphasizes the influence of war and war poetry even on those poets usually considered in other contexts, such as Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill.
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
PDF The New Oxford Book of War Poetry Download
- Author: Jon Stallworthy
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- ISBN: 0191053309
- Category : Poetry
- Languages : en
- Pages : 390
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
PDF The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War Download
- Author: Santanu Das
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 1107470080
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 320
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
Humour in British First World War Literature
PDF Humour in British First World War Literature Download
- Author: Emily Anderson
- Publisher: Springer Nature
- ISBN: 3031340515
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 242
This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the conflict. In contrast to the well-known First World War literature that focuses on extraordinary emotional disruption and the extremes of war, this study shows other writers used humour to create a gentle, mild amusement, drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before 1914. Emily Anderson argues that this humorous literature helped to transform the war into quotidian experience. Based on little-known primary material uncovered through detailed archival research, the book focuses on works that, while written by celebrated authors, tend not to be placed in the canon of Great War literature. Each chapter examines key examples of literary texts, ranging from short stories and poetry, to theatre and periodicals. In doing so, the book investigates the complex political and social significance of this tame style of humour.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War
PDF Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War Download
- Author: Ralf Schneider
- Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- ISBN: 3110422557
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Languages : en
- Pages : 595
The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.
