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The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in 1975 by Oxford University Press. It describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare.
- Paul Fussell
- 1975
Jan 1, 1975 · Paul Fussell. 4.13. 5,919 ratings287 reviews. The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world.
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Jun 12, 2013 · 4.4 374 ratings. #1 Best Seller in American Literature. See all formats and editions. Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication ...
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- Paul Fussell
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- Oxford University Press
Jul 2, 2022 · A book by Paul Fussell about the impact of World War I on literature and culture. Download, borrow, or stream this 1975 publication from the Internet Archive collection.
THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell. New York and Lon don: Oxford University Press, 1975. 363 pp., $13.95. The first quarter of the twentieth century fulfilled the last half of the nineteenth but, in England, in ways unusually unforeseeable. Had the ful fillment been what an intelligent En
May 15, 2013 · Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the...
By drawing from a variety of primary sources including personal correspondence, newspapers, and literary works Fussell brings the period alive. Not only does he give us a more profound...
