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British Writing of the Second World War

By Mark Rawlinson

British Writing of the Second World War

By Mark Rawlinson

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British Writing of the Second World War is the first study to provide a detailed critical and historical survey of British literary culture in wartime. Concerned as much with war as with writing, it explores the significance of cultural representations of violence to the administration of the war effort. A theoretical account of the symbolic practices which connect military violence to policy provides a framework for analysing imaginative and documentary literature in its relations both to propaganda and to Peoples War ideals of social reconstruction. The book evaluates wartime fictions and memoirs in the context of official and unofficial discourses about military aviation, the Blitz, campaigns in North Africa, war aims, the conscript Army and the Home Front, Prisoners of War, and the Holocaust. It uncovers the processes by which the meanings the war had for participants were produced, and provides an extensive bibliographical resource for future scholarship.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2000-07-13
Publication Date:
2000-04-27
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198184565
ISBN13:
9780198184560
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
497 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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