The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts /

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

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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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 36 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations
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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

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