The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
ISBN-10
1139828452
ISBN-13
9781139828451
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2009-01-22
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Marina MacKay

Description

The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.

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