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On war and writing /

022646878X

022646881X

9780226468785

9780226468815

On war and writing /

[Book]

Samuel Hynes.

London :

The University of Chicago Press,

2018.

©2018

x, 215 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On War and Writing offers for the first time a selection of Hynes's essays and introductions that explore the traditions of war writing from the twentieth century to the present. Hynes takes as a given that war itself--the battlefield uproar of actual combat--is unimaginable for those who weren't there, yet we have never been able to turn away from it. We want to know what war is really like: for a soldier on the Somme; a submariner in the Pacific; a bomber pilot over Germany; a tank commander in the Libyan desert. The essays in this book range from the personal (Hynes's experience working with documentary master Ken Burns, his recollections of his own days as a combat pilot) to the critical (explorations of the works of writers and artists such as Thomas Hardy, E. E. Cummings, and Cecil Day-Lewis).

Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970

Cummings, Edward E., 1894-1962

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939

English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

War and literature.

War in literature.

World War, 1914-1918-- Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945-- Literature and the war.

English literature.

Kriegsliteratur

Literature, Modern.

War and literature.

War in literature.

Hynes, Samuel,1924-2019

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