The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II by Marina Mackay

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II by Marina Mackay

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.

'This [is] a welcome book, which covers new and valuable groundI doubt whether there is a comparable guide to such a vital and wide-ranging subject that performs its function so efficiently. … ' Reference Reviews
'Marina MacKay's edited collection The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II offers a useful overview of global writings on that war. The slim volume features succinct articles on the prose and poetry of the most important warring nations.' English Studies

Marina MacKay is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.

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ISBN 13	9780521715416
ISBN 10	0521715415
Title	The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Author	Marina Mackay
Series	Cambridge Companions To Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2009-01-22
Number of pages	258
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