{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-trenches","title":"Postcards from the Trenches","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe unprecedented magnitude of death during World War I forever altered how people perceived their world and how they represented those perceptions. In Postcards from the Trenches, Allyson Booth traces the complex relationship between British Great War culture and modernist writings. She shows that, through the experience of the Great War, both civilian and combatant modernist writers found that language could no longer represent experience. She goes on to\n\u003cbr\u003eidentify and contextualize several of the resulting modernist tropes: she links the dissolving modernist self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust of factuality to the apparent\n\u003cbr\u003einaccessibility of facts regarding the \"rape of Belgium,\" and the modernist interest in multiple viewpoints to the singularity of perspective with which generals studied battlefield maps. Though her emphasis is on literary works by Robert Graves, E.M. Forster, and Vera Brittain, among others, Booth's analysis extends to memorials, posters, and architecture of the Great War. This interdisciplinary quality of Booth's study results in a much deeper understanding of how the Great War affected\n\u003cbr\u003ecultural representations and how that culture represented the War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156577317102,"sku":"9780195102116","price":331.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/postcards-from-the-trenches","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}