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Great War modernism : artistic response in the context of war, 1914-1918 / edited by Nanette Norris

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Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Norris, Nanette

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Contents
Introduction: Great War modernism / Nanette Norris -- Noncombatant responses: nostalgia, legacies, and recuperations. Homeric cheeses and the breast of a decrepit nurse: Ruskin and Marinetti on art, war, and peace / Michael J. K. Walsh ; The irrepressible conflict: the southern agrarians and World War I / David A. Davis ; A reconstructionary tale: Ford Madox Ford's Georgic response to World War I / Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy ; Noncombatancy, narrative, and Henry Green's Pack my bag / Taryn L. Okuma ; Painting abstraction/observing destruction at the front / Graeme Stout -- High modernists and the shock of war. World War I and messianic voids in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse / Camelia Raghinaru ; H. D. and the secrets of redemption / Nanette Norris ; Violence and laughter in Women in love / Joyce Wexler ; You give them money, they give you a stuffed dog: modernism and survival in The sun also rises / Gregory M. Dandeles -- Soldiers and soldiering. Anonymity, transnational identity, and A German deserter's war experience / Erika Kuhlman ; Rosenberg's half life: between Romanticism and Modernism / James Brown ; From drills to dreams: "Makings the mould" of retreat in John Dos Passos's Three soldiers / Matthew David Perry ; A necessary aesthetics: Modernism's role in stabilizing war narratives through poetry: David Jones to Brian Turner (and beyond) / Travis L. Martin.
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9781611478037 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1611478030 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781611478051 (paperback alkaline paper)
1611478057 (paperback alkaline paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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