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Reimagining the war memorial, reinterpreting the Great war : the formats of British commemorative fiction /

Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena

Reimagining the war memorial, reinterpreting the Great war : the formats of British commemorative fiction / by Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż. - 1 online resource (vii, 216 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction is an in-depth analysis of the role of British war memorials in literature and film, in the wider context of the commemorative trend in contemporary culture. The Sheffield City Battalion Memorial, the Menin Gate Memorial, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, the Royal Artillery Memorial, and the Shot at Dawn Memorial are the focus of the discussion, which aims to show how the.

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World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.--Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
War and literature
C 1900 -
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
First World War fiction


Great Britain--Great Britain.