Sites of memory, sites of mourning

Description:

Jay Winter's powerful new 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. Using a great variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr. Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration, and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'Modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914-1918, Dr. Winter instead argues that what characterized that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose, inevitably.

subjects: World War, 1914-1918,  Civilization,  Memory,  Intellectual life,  Mort,  Gedenktekens,  Intellektuellt liv,  Aspect psychologique,  Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918,  Gedenkplaatsen,  Kollektives Geda˜chtnis,  Fo˜rsta va˜rldskriget 1914-1918,  Civilisation,  Kultur,  World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746,  Guerre mondiale (1914-1918),  Vie intellectuelle,  Weltkrieg (1914-1918),  Geistesgeschichte,  Historia,  Memoire collective,  Eerste Wereldoorlog,  History,  Monuments commemoratifs,  Europe, civilization,  Europe, intellectual life

Places: Europe

Times: 20th century