Sites of memory, sites of mourning : the Great War in European cultural history / Jay Winter.

Publication | Library Call Number: D523 .W58 1995

Series: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Winter, J. M.
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995
Locale: Europe
Language: English

Physical Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Homecomings : the return of the dead
Communities in mourning
Spiritualism and the "lost generation"
War memorials and the mourning process
Mythologies or war : films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred
The apocalyptic imagination in art : from anticipation to allegory
The apocalyptic imagination in war literature
War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.
ISBN: 0521496829
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index.

Homecomings : the return of the dead -- Communities in mourning -- Spiritualism and the "lost generation" -- War memorials and the mourning process -- Mythologies or war : films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred -- The apocalyptic imagination in art : from anticipation to allegory -- The apocalyptic imagination in war literature -- War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918.
Europe--Civilization--20th century.
Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.
Memory.
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