Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural HistoryJay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Homecomings the return of the dead | 15 |
Communities in mourning | 29 |
Spiritualism and the Lost Generation | 54 |
War memorials and the mourning process | 78 |
Cultural codes and languages of mourning | 117 |
Mythologies of war films popular religion and the business of the sacred | 119 |
The apocalyptic imagination in art from anticipation to allegory | 145 |
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