Media, Memory, and the First World War.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (334 pages)
- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Series ; v.48 .
- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: MEMORY AND MEDIA -- 1 Modern Memory -- 2 Mediated Memory -- PART TWO: CLASSICAL MEMORY: ORALITY AND LITERACY -- 3 Oral Memory and the Anger of Achilleus -- 4 Scripts of Empire: Remembering Virgil in Barometer Rising -- PART THREE: THE END OF THE BOOK AND THE BEGINNING OF CINEMA -- 5 Cinematic Memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- 6 "Spectral Images": The Double Vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- PART FOUR: PHOTO/PLAY: SEEING TIME AND (HEARING) RELATIVITY -- 7 Photographic Memory: "A Force of Interruption" in The Wars -- 8 A Play of Light: Dramatizing Relativity in R. H. Thomson's The Lost Boys -- PART FIVE: VIRTUAL PRESENCES: HISTORY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE -- 9 Electronic Memory: "A New Homeric Mode" on History Television -- 10 Sound Bytes in the Archive and the Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romantic, even classical? In this highly original history of memory, David Williams shows how classic Great War literature, including work by.
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Literature, Modern-20th century-History and criticism. Memory-History. Motion pictures and literature. War and literature. World War, 1914-1918-Motion pictures and the war.