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The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

What did the First World War feel like to the young officers in the trenches, and how did they turn it into literature?

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Author
Paul Fussell

Why read it

  • You will notice the habit of splitting the world into us and the enemy, and see how it took root in the trenches
  • You will understand how writers use language to find order and meaning in the messes of memory
  • You will see how the British experience of the Western Front was turned into myth by the way it was remembered and written

Who it is for

  • A reader of war memoirs and poetry who wants a guide
  • A literature student interested in how war becomes myth
  • Someone who wants the real texture of trench life

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Preface to the Original Edition
  3. ONE A Satire of Circumstance
  4. TWO The Troglodyte World
  5. THREE Adversary Proceedings
  6. FOUR Myth, Ritual, and Romance
  7. FIVE Oh What a Literary War
  8. SIX Theater of War
  9. SEVEN Arcadian Recourses
  10. EIGHT Soldier Boys
  11. NINE Persistence and Memory
  12. Afterword

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