War beyond words : languages of memory from the Great War to the present /

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winter, J. M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambriidge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects.
Collective memory > Social aspects.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Aspect social.
Mémoire collective > Aspect social.
HISTORY / Europe / Western
Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I
  • Vectors of Memory; 1
  • Configuring War: The Changing Face of Armed Conflict; 2
  • Photographing War: Soldiers' Photographs and the Revolution in Violence since 1914; 3
  • Filming War; 4
  • Writing War
  • Part II
  • Frameworks of Memory; 5
  • Memory and the Sacred: Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and Beyond; 6
  • The Geometry of Memory: Horizontality and War Memorials in the Twentieth Century and After; 7
  • War Beyond Words: Shell Shock, Silence, and Memories of War.

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