The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts / / Ann-Marie Einhaus, Katherine Isobel Baxter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Einhaus, Ann-Marie,; Baxter, Katherine Isobel,
• MitwirkendeR: Baxter, Katherine Isobel,; Brandon, Laura,; Cundy, Alys,; Dawson, Clara,; Dean, Robert,; Einhaus, Ann-Marie,; Grant, Peter,; Haggith, Toby,; Hand, Richard J.,; Hanna, Emma,; Kelly, Alice,; Kempshall, Chris,; Kennedy, Kate,; La Casse, Christopher J.,; Laycock, Jo,; Long, J. J,; Macdonald, Kate,; Maguire, Anna,; Maunder, Andrew,; Paris, Michael,; Potter, Jane,; Potter, Matthew C.,; Shaw, Matthew,; Simmers, George,; Stern-Peltz, Marie,; Thompson, James,; Wittman, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 36 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war’s upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the 26 essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and, where appropriate, pursue their inquiry into the present day. In 6 sections, covering Literature, the Visual Arts, Music, Periodicals and Journalism, Film and Broadcasting, and Publishing and Material Culture, a wide range of original chapters from experts across literature and the arts examine what means and approaches were employed to respond to the shock of war as well as asking such key questions as how and why literary and artistic responses to the war have changed over time, and how far later works of art are responses not only to the war itself, but to earlier cultural production.Key FeaturesOffers new insights into the breadth and depth of artistic responses to WWIEstablishes links and parallels across a wide range of different media and genresEmphasises the development of responses in different fields from 1914 to the present

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Literature -- 1 The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction -- 2 Poetry of the First World War in Britain -- 3 First World War Short Fiction -- 4 Theatre: 1914 and After -- 5 Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences -- 6 Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War -- II. Visual Arts -- 7 The ‘abysmal inexcusable middle class’, Painting, Commemoration and the First World War -- 8 ‘Varied to Infinity’: The First World War and Sculpture -- 9 Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning -- 10 Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain -- III. Music -- 11 ‘We think you ought to go’: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War -- 12 British Soldiers’ Songs -- 13 The First World War in Popular Music since 1958 -- 14 Requiems and Memorial Music -- IV. Periodicals and Journalism -- 15 Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals -- 16 Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance -- 17 Pamphlets and Political Writing -- 18 ‘The whole of war is an atrocity’: Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands -- V. Film and Broadcasting -- 19 Official War Films in Britain: THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916), its Impact Then and its Meaning Today -- 20 Too Colossal to Be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War -- 21 Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama -- 22 The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War -- VI. Publishing and Material Culture -- 23 The British Publishing Industry and the First World War -- 24 Photography and the First World War -- 25 The Imperial War Museum and the Material Culture of the First World War, 1917–2014 -- 26 The Evolution of First World War Computer Games -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index