{"product_id":"literature-and-the-great-war-1914-1918-9780199596454","title":"Literature and the Great War 1914-1918","description":"\u003cem\u003eOxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003efundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003equestion familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Great War shaped the modern world, and much of its literary imagination. \u003cem\u003eLiterature and the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e insightfully reassesses this impact, analysing a wide range of authors, both established and less well-known, and re-examining critical judgements, popular assumptions - even 'myths' - about war\u003cbr\u003ewriting that have developed in the century or so that has followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy looking at all genres of Great War writing in a single volume, the study allows reconsideration of the relative merits of the period's much-praised poetry and its generally less celebrated narrative texts. Randall Stevenson looks far beyond the work of soldier-authors, considering also the role\u003cbr\u003eof an older generation of writers - ones whose reputations were established before the war began - as well as the impact of war on the modernist imagination developing afterwards, in the 1920s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterature and the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e examines the context in which this literature was produced. Taking into consideration military life, the role of newspapers, war correspondents, politicians and propagandists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe unintelligible violence of the Great War placed a huge amount of pressure on the language, imagination, and textual practice of all who attempted to describe it. Incisively reconsidering these fundamental issues, \u003cem\u003e Literature and the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e challenges and rejuvenates approaches to its subject, \u003cbr\u003eredefining the interconnections of history, culture, and literary imagination in the early decades of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.31w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199596454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRandall Stevenson\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in the north of Scotland. He grew up in Glasgow and was educated the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. After teaching for a time in North-West Nigeria, he returned to the Department of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s. He has also lectured abroad, in ten European countries and in Korea, Egypt, and Nigeria. His work has been translated into Italian and Russian, and new editions of his critical studies have been published in Romania and in China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934235541619,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b0a1ffda-357e-45bf-8cf3-a89a4b4384e6.jpg?v=1647878377","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/literature-and-the-great-war-1914-1918-9780199596454","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}