The First World War in fiction : a collection of critical essays / edited by Holger Klein.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Klein, Holger, 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Barnes & Noble, 1977.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Holger Klein
  • Love and war: R.H. Mottram, The Spanish Farm Trilogy, and Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms / Michael Garrety
  • John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers: aesthetics and the doom of individualism / Stanley Cooperman
  • The painful process of unthinking: E.E. Cummings' social vision in The Enormous Room / Jeffrey Walsh
  • Henri Barbusse: Le Feu and the crisis of social realism / Jonathan King
  • The soldier's stage: Roland Dorgeles, Les Croix de Bois / John Flower
  • Drieu la Rochelle: the war as 'comedy' / Jonathan Dale
  • Against nature: Jean Giono and Le Grand Troupeau / W.D. Redfern
  • Projections of everyman: the common soldier in Franconi, Wiechert, and Williamson / Holger Klein
  • Journalism into fiction: Erich Maria Remarque, Im Western nichts Neues / Brian A. Rowley
  • The embattled style: Ernst Ju˜nger, In Stahlgewittern / J.P. Stern
  • Humanitarianism and law: Arnold Zweig, Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa / W.G. Sebald
  • The last days of Austria: Hasek and Kraus / Robert Pynsent
  • Dead man erect: F.T. Marinetti, L'alcova d'acciaio / Christopher Wagstaff
  • Strategies of survival: Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, and David Jones, In Parenthesis / Diane DeBell
  • The very plain song of it: Frederic Manning, Her Privates We / C.N. Smith
  • Richard Aldington and Death of a Hero
  • or life of an anti-hero? / John Morris
  • The denuded place: war and form in Parade's End and U.S.A. / Malcolm Bradbury.