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  • A New Way of Seeing

    Distance and Traumatic Memory in the Poetry of World War II

    by Michael Sarnowski, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley ...
    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    A New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers—Louis Simpson, Keith Douglas, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Randall Jarrell—whose work draws on their activities as soldiers in World War II. Basing his examination on extensive primary-source research, Michael Sarnowski identifies distance, both literal and figurative, and traumatic memory as two interconnected elements of how these ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Wartime

    Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    by Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Language and Literature for the IB MYP 2

    by Zara Kaiserimam ...
    A concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Language and Literature teaching and learning.- Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context- Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed by an experienced MYP educator- Differentiates and extends learning with research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities- ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Soldiers' Tale

    Bearing Witness to a Modern War

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities.Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Distance from the Belsen Heap

    Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

    by Mark Celinscak ...
    Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for NonfictionThe Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

    by Peter Howarth ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Media Memory and the First World War

    by David Williams ...
    Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional romantic even classical? In this highly original history of memory David Williams shows how classic Great War literature including work by Remarque Owen Sassoon and Harrison was symptomatic of a cultural crisis brought on by the advent of cinema. He argues that images from Geoffrey ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Vietnam War Stories

    Innocence Lost

    by Tobey C. Herzog ...
    The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensi ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War

    Edited by Vincent Sherry ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national ... Read more

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  • Study Guide ... The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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    by Carla Aira ...
    Series Book 13 - Study Guide
    Study Guide… is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning supplying the most important information about literary works and so fostering their comprehension.The first part of the study guide of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock briefly describes the historical, social and literary background of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

    Edited by Gabrielle McIntire ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • FILM PAST FILM FUTURE

    An Enquiry into Cinema and the Imagination

    by Tim Cawkwell ...
    How does film engage the imagination? By the brilliance of the film-makers' imagination, yes, but also by making the viewer strive to connect images, and to respond to all the film's elements: acting, framing, lighting, music and so on, to what's shown and to what's implied. All this is illustrated with a huge range of examples from films new and old. Part One covers the way the cinema has delved ... Read more

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