Media, Memory, and the First World War.
Title:
Media, Memory, and the First World War.
Author:
Williams, David.
ISBN:
9780773576520
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; v.48
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Memory and Media -- 1 Modern Memory -- 2 Mediated Memory -- Part Two Classical Memory: Orality and Literacy -- 3 Oral Memory and the Anger of Achilleus -- 4 Scripts of Empire: Remembering Virgil in Barometer Rising -- Part Three The End of the Book and the Beginning of Cinema -- 5 Cinematic Memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison -- 6 "Spectral Images": The Double Vision of Siegfried Sassoon -- Part Four Photo / Play: Seeing Time and (Hearing) Relativity -- 7 Photographic Memory: "A Force of Interruption" in The Wars -- 8 A Play of Light: Dramatizing Relativity in R.H. Thomson's The Lost Boys -- Part Five Virtual Presences: History in the Electronic Age -- 9 Electronic Memory: "A New Homeric Mode" on History Television -- 10 Sound Bytes in the Archive and the Museum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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