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Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Adopting the term ""new death,"" which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicising and analysing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows ... Read more
Adopting the term ""new death,"" which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicising and analysing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934082
SKU
V9780813934082
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About Pearl James
Pearl James, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA is editor of Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture.
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