Media, Memory, and the First World War

✍ Scribed by David Williams

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 334
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 48
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

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
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