Contributor
Piette, Adam.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Descriptionx, 590 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:PART I: WARS AND THEIR LITERATURES. 1. Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals ; 2. The 'Essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the Great War / Jane Potter ; 3. Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt ; 4. One of Ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock ; 5. The 'Moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace': modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam ; 6. The Great War and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris ; 7. Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 ; 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain ; 9. 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton ; 10. American poets of World War II / Margot Norris ; 11. Writing after Neuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge ; 12. The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon ; 13. The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart ; 14. Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone ; 15. Holocaust film / Barry Langford ; 16. O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart ; 17. The Fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Piette ; 18. Cold War films / Jonathan Auerbach ; 19. Britain's small wars: domesticating 'emergency' / Lee Erwin ; 20. The Disappeared and the damned: duplicity, complicity and reality in the literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson ; 21. Vietnam fictions / Mark A. Heberle ; 22. 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese poetry on the Vietnam/American War / Subarno Chattarji ; 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'troubles' / Fran Brearton ; 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley ; 25. 'An uneven killing field': British literature and the former Yogoslavia / Andrew Hammond ; 26. Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen -- PART II: BODIES, BEHAVIOUR, CULTURES. 27. War memorials / David Goldie ; 28. Unsettled memory: a meditation on contested ground / Jane Creighton ; 29. War, policing and surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State / Jessica Meacham ; 30. American psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell ; 31. Pacifists and conscientious objectors / Ian Patterson ; 32. The Representation of refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore / Sissy Helff -- 33. 'These rooms/run into each other like tunnels/leading to the underworld': race in war literature / Mark W. Van Wienen ; 34. A Spy under every bed: espionage and popular literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury ; 35. Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau -- PART III: TECHNOLOGY. 36. Camoflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson ; 37. Warplane / David Pascoe ; 38. Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner ; 39. Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison ; 40. 'An ecstacy of fumbling': Gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Dasn ; 41. Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage ; 42. Word electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the seance in World War I / Jane Lewty -- PART IV: SPACES. 43. The Trenches / Allyson Booth ; 44. Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Leo Mellor ; 45. 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson ; 46. Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second world war / Leo Mellor ; 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox -- PART V: GENRES. 48. Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll ' 49. Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed ; 50. The Children's war / Katie Trumpener ; 51. The Troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly ; 52. Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. Maslen ; 53. Visualising the transformations of war: war and art in the twentieth century / Roger Tolson ; 54. Twentieth-century spy fiction / James Purdon ; 55. 'Play up and play the game!': the narrative of war games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart ; 56. War correspondence / Kate McLoughlin ; 57. Thinking war / Nick Mansfield.
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