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Author:

Minogue, Sally, author.

Title:

The remembered dead : poetry, memory and the First World War / Sally Minogue, Andrew Palmer.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

World War (1914-1918)
English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war.
War poetry--History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Memory in literature.
Grief in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memorialization--Great Britain--History--20th century.
War and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Death in literature.
English poetry.
Grief in literature.
Memorialization.
Memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
War and literature.
War poetry.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Lyrik.
Tod.
Trauer.
Weltkrieg.
War and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
War poetry, English--History and criticism.
English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Palmer, Andrew, 1965- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- 'But You Are Dead!' : Early Struggles over Representation -- 'The World's Worst Wound' : Death, Consciousness and Modernism -- 'Fierce Imaginings' : The Radical Myth-Making of David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg -- Memorial Poems and the Poetics of Memorialising -- 'Disquieting Matter' : The Unburied Corpse in War Poetry -- 'Horrors Here Smile' : The Poem, the Photograph and the Punctum -- Dulce et Decorum Est.

Summary:

"The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War--and later poets writing in the memory of that war--address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets struggled to meaningfully represent dying, death, and the trauma of witness, while responding to the pressing need for commemoration. The authors pay close attention to specific poems while maintaining a strong awareness of literary and philosophical contexts. The poems are discussed in relation to modernism and myth, other forms of commemoration (photographs, memorials), and theories of cultural memory. There is fresh analysis of canonical poets which, at the same time, challenges the confines of the canon by integrating discussion of lesser-known figures, including non-combatants and poets of later decades. The final chapter reaches beyond the war's centenary in a discussion of one remarkable commemoration of Wilfred Owen"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1108428673
9781108428675

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1013971788

LCCN:

2018000610

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)