| ID | 133808 |
| Title Proper | Life writing, fiction and modernism in British narratives of the First World War |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Saunders, Max |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Popular memory may be shaped by poetry, but it is in prose that some of the most compelling and innovative literary work about the First World War is to be found
For decades, Britain's cultural memory of the First World War has been dominated by poetry, the principal literary interpretation of the war taught in schools throughout the country. This poetry, argues Max Saunders, is often autobiographic and complements the memoirs that many writers penned in trying to express their experiences of the conflict - showing a complex and fluid relationship between autobiography and narrative. What is largely marginalised in British cultural memory is the novel; yet it is perhaps in this literary form, and in the work of Ford Madox Ford above all, that the most innovative interpretations of the conflict can be found |
| `In' analytical Note | Rusi Journal Vol.159, No.4; Aug-Sep.2014: p.106-111 |
| Journal Source | Rusi Journal Vol.159, No.4; Aug-Sep.2014: p.106-111 |
| Key Words | British Narratives ; Warfare Literature ; Great War ; World War - I ; Warfare History ; Warfare Strategy ; Warfare Memory ; Cultural Memory ; Conflict |