Mourning And Mysticism In First World War Literature And Beyond
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Mourning And Mysticism In First World War Literature And Beyond
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Author : George M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-06-14
Mourning And Mysticism In First World War Literature And Beyond written by George M. Johnson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-14 with History categories.
This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
Mourning And Mysticism In First World War Literature And Beyond
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Author : George M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-06-14
Mourning And Mysticism In First World War Literature And Beyond written by George M. Johnson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-14 with History categories.
This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
World War I And American Art
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Author : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-11
World War I And American Art written by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11 with Art categories.
-World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---
Mystic Moderns
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Author : James H. Thrall
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-21
Mystic Moderns written by James H. Thrall and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mystic Moderns examines the responses of three British authors—Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), May Sinclair (1863–1946), and Mary Webb (1881–1927)—to the emerging modernity of the long early twentieth-century moment encompassing the First World War. As they explored divergent but overlapping understandings of what mystical experience might be, these authors rejected claims that modernity’s celebration of the secular and rational left no place for the mystical; rather, they countered, sensitivity to a greater reality could both establish and validate personal agency, and was integral to their identities as modern women. Their preoccupations with the dynamism of human connection drew on prevailing ideas of “vital energy” or “life force” developed by Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson in ways that channeled modernity’s erotic energy of change. By using their fiction to describe new, self-authenticating forms of mysticism separate from either the prevailing orthodoxy of establishment Christianity or the extreme heterodoxy of their era’s enthusiasm for paranormal experimentation, they also contributed to the rise of a generic concept of “spirituality.” Mystic Moderns thus offers historical perspective on contemporary claims for self-constructed, non-institutional spiritual experience associated with the claim “I’m spiritual, not religious.” Working as they did within the shadow of the First World War, Underhill, Sinclair, and Webb were, in the end, attempting to determine what might be of authentic value for a modern age marked by ubiquitous death. While not themselves utopian authors, each was touched by her era’s complicated hunger for the best of all possible worlds. Their constructions of how an individual should be and act in the midst of modernity thus simultaneously projected visions of what that modernity itself should become.
Locating The Gothic In British Modernity
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Author : Sam Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-19
Locating The Gothic In British Modernity written by Sam Wiseman and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study considers how British literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic and supernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whether metropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-cultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literary representation.
The Remembered Dead
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Author : Sally Minogue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-31
The Remembered Dead written by Sally Minogue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with History categories.
Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.
Haunted Armistice
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Author : Marlene A. Briggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Haunted Armistice written by Marlene A. Briggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
The Armistice serves as the Great War's haunted point of closure in Britain. By combining literary and historical analysis with psychoanalysis and trauma theory, my interdisciplinary approach to the Great War enables a multifaceted exploration of the dynamics of unresolved mourning after catastrophic events through both general and historically specific modes of investigation. Chapter One addresses the unresolved crises of cultural and medical mediation occasioned by shell shock. I then suggest that contemporary scholarship which reformulates trauma and mourning after Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) effectively recalls the specters of the century's first massive trauma. Chapter Two foregrounds the scholar's participation in the cultural transmission and reception of catastrophic events through practical and theoretical formulations of trauma and mourning. In Chapter Three, diverse conceptualizations of mourning and survivorship are juxtaposed in illustration of the challenges which trauma poses to any unitary formulation of its aftermath. And adapting scholarship on the Second World War, Chapter Four considers the ways that secondary narratives of the Great War continue to engage the dynamics of historical trauma through an abiding preoccupation with the frontsoldier. In Part Two, by reclassifying the poems of Owen and Sassoon as poetic testimonies, Chapter Five privileges their urgent transmission and reception of harrowing experience and unresolved mourning. Chapter Six then contrasts the oppositional engagement of Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922) with official modes of memory-work configured after the Armistice by national commemorative sites such as the Cenotaph and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. In Chapter Seven, the postwar suicide of a veteran in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) merely dramatizes that the specters of the War haunted the peace, a peace belied by numerous unresolved losses which contributed to the Second World War. Finally, Chapter Eight discusses Jones's In Parenthesis (1937) and its reconstruction of the haunted topography of the Somme, a landscape central to the War and its aftermath in Britain. In conclusion, I highlight the belated literature of historical trauma at the millennium as it continues to engage the cultural work of mourning initiated by the Great War generation.
Book Reviews
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Book Reviews written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Bibliography, National categories.
War Beyond Words
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Author : Jay Winter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-08
War Beyond Words written by Jay Winter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with History categories.
What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war, from 1914 to the present. He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed our meditations on war, from painting and sculpture to photography, film and poetry, and ultimately to silence, as a language of memory in its own right. He shows how these highly mediated images of war, in turn, circulate through language to constitute our 'cultural memory' of war. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the diverse ways in which men and women have wrestled with the intractable task of conveying what twentieth-century wars meant to them and mean to us.
Haunting Modernisms
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Author : Matt Foley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-11
Haunting Modernisms written by Matt Foley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting by synthesizing recent critical work in the fields of haunting studies, Gothic modernisms, and mourning modernisms. The chapters read the form and function of the ghostly as it appears in the work of a constellation of important modernist contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, and Ford Madox Ford. It is of particular significance to scholars and students in a wide range of fields of study, including modernism, literary theory, and the Gothic.