North America, Europe and the Cultural Memory of the First World War
1. Edition, 2015
241 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6402-1
Product: Book
Edition: Softcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: Anglistische Forschungen, Volume No.: 453
Available: 14.10.2015
Keywords:
Film, kanadische literatur, Erinnerungskultur, Mediengeschichte, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Two Cultures, 1. Weltkrieg, Transatlantische Geschichte, Wharton, Edith, Transatlantic Studies, Kulturelles Gedächnis, amerikanische Soldaten, Hemingway, Ernest, Remarque, Erich Maria, Harrison, Charles Yale, Urquhart, Jane, Gross, Paul, Deutschkanadier, Weltkrieg <1914-1918>
The First World War represented a watershed in US-American and Canadian relations with Europe. It re-defined images of the Old World and the New on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to the demise of Europe as a cultural model for many U.S. and Canadian writers and artists. In Canada in particular, the war has come to be regarded as a milestone on the road to nationhood, as a strong sense of ‘Canadianness’ emerged from the country’s military engagement on the European battlefields. In Europe, in turn, the influx of North American soldiers heralded future cultural influences from across the Atlantic.
The present volume investigates the cultural memory of the ‘Great War’ of 1914–1918 from a transatlantic perspective. Its chapters analyze the way in which literature, art and film have rendered the various encounters and confrontations between the Old and New Worlds which took place in the course of the war, and the significance of the war as a crucial episode in transatlantic (cultural) history.
Contrib. by: Martin Löschnigg, Jay Winter, Holger Klein, Karin Kraus, Don Sparling, Brigitte Johanna Glaser, Anna Branach-Kallas, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryż, Sherrill Grace, Zachary Abram, Laura Brandon, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Thomas F. Schneider, Walter Hölbling, Stefan L. Brandt, Marek Paryż
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in: Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature, XXIII (2017), 178
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