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Modern nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, trauma and the Second World War /
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. It situates his ongoing anxiety about 'Englishness', modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war's return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence. Key Features Provides the most thorough, eloquently crafted and focused revisionist study of Siegfried Sassoon to date Sets Sassoon's work in new contexts and offers Sassoon as a case study for new ways of remembering war Taps into current theories of trauma, nostalgia and memory Establishes continuities between the literary culture of the First and Second World Wars |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0748633073 9780748633074 1281785857 9781281785855 0748651888 9780748651887 9786611785857 661178585X |