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European memories of the Second World War / edited by Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett, and Claire Gorrara.
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…Portrait of the Poet as a Dead Man: Ernst Jiinger's Writing in the Second World War: Strahlungen /…”
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The Second World War in contemporary British fiction : secret histories / Victoria Stewart.
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French crime fiction and the Second World War : Past crimes, present memories.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…French crime fiction and the Second World War: Past crimes, present memories; Half Title Page; Series Editors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Mapping French memories of the Second World War; 1. …”
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Irish writing London. edited by Tom Herron.
Published 2013“…Revival to the Second World War…”
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The legal thriller from Gardner to Grisham : see you in court! / Lars Ole Sauerberg.
Published 2016Table of Contents: Full text (Wentworth users only)
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Modernism, war, and violence / Marina MacKay.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Modernism and the Second World War -- Epilogue: Cold War modernism?…”
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Jews and Jewishness in British children's literature / Madelyn J. Travis.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Moneylenders and Misers: the Eighteenth Century to the Second World War -- "Conversion" to Englishness: Refugees and Belonging -- The Hyphen Problem: British-Jewish Identity -- Mother, Monster, Mensch: Jews and Gender -- "Good Jews" or "Bad Jews"?…”
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Japanese animation : East Asian perspectives / edited by Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G. Hu.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Animation Studies and Animation History in Japan -- Pioneers of Japanese Animation -- Popular Culture, East-West Expressions, and Tezuka Osamu -- Female Characters and Transnational Identities -- Artistic Animation and Expression in Japan -- Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio after the Second World War: Toei.…”
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The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature / edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals -- 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the great war / Jane Potter -- Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt -- One of ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock -- The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace' modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam -- The great war and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris -- Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell -- The poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain -- 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton -- American poets of World War II / Margot Norris -- Writing after Nuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon -- The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart -- Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone -- Holocaust film / Barry Langford -- O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. …”
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Jews in Ukrainian literature : representation and identity / Myroslav Shkandrij.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Confronting the other, 1800-1880 -- Meeting at the crossroads, 1881-1914 -- A dream of rapprochement, 1914-1929 -- Constructing Jewish identity in Ukrainian literature, 1914-1929 -- A Jewish voice: Leonid Pervomaisky -- The rising tide of resentment, 1929-1939 -- The second World War and late Stalinism, 1939-1953 -- Awakening from history, 1953-2005 -- Postindependence ironies.…”
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Fighting songs and warring words : popular lyrics of two world wars / Brian Murdoch.
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…; WE HATE AS ONE: POEMS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; WHEN THIS BLEEDING WAR IS OVER: SONGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; TOMORROW THE WHOLE WORLD: FASCISM AND THE LYRIC; THERE IS NO NEED FOR ALARM: POEMS OF THE ALLIES, 1939 45; MY LILLI OF THE LAMPLIGHT: SONGS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR; WORLD WAR THREE BLUES: THE LYRIC AND AUGUST 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index.…”
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Contemporary American drama / Annette J. Saddik.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…COVER; CONTENTS; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Experimental Innovations After the Second World War; 2 Revisiting the American Dream; 3 African-American Theatre: Voices from the Margins; 4 Avant-Garde Theatre Groups: Revolutions in Performance; 5 Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; 6 The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; 7 Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War; 8 The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making Visible the Invisible; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.…”
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Atlantic republic : the American tradition in English literature / Paul Giles.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War; 8. Postwar Poetry and the Purifications of Exile.…”
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The death of things : ephemera and the American novel / Sarah Wasserman.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Dick, Philip Roth, and the Second World War -- Chapter 3. Zoned Out: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Urban Infrastructure -- Chapter 4. …”
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War Stories : the War Memoir in History and Literature.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War; Chapter 8 Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic; Chapter 9 The War That Was Not; Chapter 10 Remembering the 'Endless' Partition.…”
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An Introduction to the Russian Novel / Janko Lavrin.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter xvi. soviet life in literaturechapter xvii. links with the past and the future; chapter xviii. the second world war and after; conclusion; index of names.…”
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth.…”
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On art and war and terror / Alex Danchev.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…All this happened, or, the real Waugh: sword of honour and the literature of the Second World War --- 7. The secret life, or, the soldier's tale: military diaries --- 8. …”
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The truth of the technological world : essays on the genealogy of presence / Friedrich A. Kittler ; with an afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Erik Butler.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Poet, mother, child : on the romantic invention of sexuality -- Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Lullaby of birdland -- The god of the ears -- Flechsig/Schreber/Freud : an information-network at the turn of the century -- Romanticism, psychoanalysis, film : a story of doubles -- Media and drugs in Pynchon's Second World War -- Heinrich von Ofterdingen as data-feed -- World-breath : on Wagner's media technology -- The city is a medium -- Rock music, a misuse of military equipment -- Signal-to-noise ratio -- The artificial intelligence of World War : Alan Turing -- Unconditional surrender -- Protected mode -- There is no software -- Il fiore delle truppe scelte -- Eros and Aphrodite -- Homer and writing -- The alphabet of the Greeks : on the archeology of writing -- In the wake of the Odyssey -- Martin Heidegger, media, and the gods of Greece : de-severance heralds the approach of the gods -- Pathos and ethos : an Aristotelian observation -- Media history as the event of truth : on the singularity of Friedrich A. …”
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