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the great war and modern memory
Title: the great war and modern memory
Category: History
Details: Words: 493 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
the great war and modern memory
The Great War and Modern Memory brought out change to language, literature, and other aspects of cultural memory. The horrible conflicts that were brought out to the 19th century innocence had incubated the irony and pessimism that has influenced 20th century letters, politics, and popular opinion. Paul Fussell examines and analyzes literature, essays, poetry, and letters home. This book is mainly about World War I British literacy, and history.
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…showed last 75 words of 493 total…book was a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary. He used these writers because they all effectively honored WWI as an historical experience with noticeable imaginative and artistic meaning.
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