Media, memory, and the First World War /

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...

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Main Author: Williams, David, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 48.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Modern memory
  • Mediated memory
  • Oral memory and the anger of Achilleus
  • Scripts of empire: remembering Virgil in Barometer rising
  • Cinematic memory in Owen, Remarque, and Harrison
  • "Spectral images": the double vision of Siegfried Sassoon
  • Photographic memory: "a force of interruption" in The wars
  • A play of light: dramatizing relativity in R.H. Thomson's The lost boys
  • Electronic memory: "a new Homeric mode" on History Television
  • Sound bytes in the archive and the museum
  • Conclusion.