

The Great War and Modern Memory
Author: Paul Fussell
Narrator: James Anderson Foster
Unabridged: 15 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/20/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, Wars, World War I
Synopsis
This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who—with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning—most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience. Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, diaries, novels, and letters reflected the massive changes—in every area, including language itself—brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War.