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International poetry of the first world war: An anthology of lost voices/ edited by Constance Ruzich. [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Ruzich, C [editor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Description: e-book containing 387 pages.ISBN: 9781350106475.Subject(s): Comparative Literature - First World War | Literary Studies | Poetry and Poetics | Twentieth-Century LiteratureDDC classification: 809 Online resources: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350106475?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections Click here
Contents:
Front matter Introduction 1–16 1. Soldiers’ Lives 17–94 2. Minds at War 95–156 3. Noncombatants 157–226 4. Making Sense of War 227–280 5. Remembering the Dead 281–338 6. Aftermath 339–377 Back matter Primary Sources 378–384 Further Reading 385–387
Summary: Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this new anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict. Life on the Front Psychological trauma Noncombatants and the Home Front Rationalising the War Remembering the dead Peace and the aftermath of the War With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia.
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Front matter
Introduction 1–16
1. Soldiers’ Lives 17–94
2. Minds at War 95–156
3. Noncombatants 157–226
4. Making Sense of War 227–280
5. Remembering the Dead 281–338
6. Aftermath 339–377
Back matter
Primary Sources 378–384
Further Reading 385–387

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this new anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict.

Life on the Front

Psychological trauma

Noncombatants and the Home Front

Rationalising the War

Remembering the dead

Peace and the aftermath of the War

With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia.

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