Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Sites of memory, sites of mourning :

Winter, J. M.,

Sites of memory, sites of mourning : the Great War in European cultural history / Jay Winter. - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014 - x, 310 pages : illlustrations ; 22 cm - Canto classics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction; Part I. Catastrophe and Consolation: 1. Homecomings: the return of the dead; 2. Communities in mourning; 3. Spiritualism and the 'Lost Generation'; 4. War memorials and the mourning process; Part II. Cultural Codes and Languages of Mourning: 5. Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred; 6. The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory; 7. The apocalyptic imagination in war literature; 8. War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

9781107661653 110766165X


World War, 1914-1918.

D523. / W58 1995