| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) |
| Contents |
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Space Between the Wars; 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses; 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of 'Autognosis' in the Interwar Years; 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War; 5. Look Back to 'Gladness': Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940-5; 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936-42; 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. It situates his ongoing anxiety about 'Englishness', modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war's return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence. Key Features Provides the most thorough, eloquently crafted and focused revisionist study of Siegfried Sassoon to date Sets Sassoon's work in new contexts and offers Sassoon as a case study for new ways of remembering war Taps into current theories of trauma, nostalgia and memory Establishes continuities between the literary culture of the First and Second World Wars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 |
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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 fast |
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Sassoon, Siegfried 1886-1967 gnd |
| Subject |
Psychic trauma in literature.
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Nostalgia in literature.
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War in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in Literature
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Stress Disorders, Traumatic -- psychology
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History, 20th Century
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Literature, Modern -- history
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Warfare
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Medicine in literature
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Nostalgia in literature
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Psychic trauma in literature
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War in literature
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Nostalgie
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Trauma
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0748633073 |
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9780748633074 |
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1281785857 |
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9781281785855 |
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0748651888 |
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9780748651887 |
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9786611785857 |
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661178585X |
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