The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.

Author: Marina MacKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521887557

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2009

About the Author
MacKay, Marina: - Marina MacKay is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.