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The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American War literature
The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers.
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The long aftermath
In its totality, the “Long Second World War”—extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945—has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations—Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia—it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.
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CAMOUFLAGE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF WARFARE
At the beginning of the twentieth century the pictorial conventions of the battle painting were challenged first by drab uniforms and then by camouflage. The look of war had changed, for tactical and strategic ends. Camouflage (schemes of disguise and deception first named as such during the First World War) was a technological response to developments in the range and accuracy of ordnance (longer-range small arms and the aerial direction of artillery). As is suggested by the cultural impact of the dazzle painting of military and merchant shipping (a making-strange, in Russian Formalist terminology, intended to impede the aiming of
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