{"product_id":"european-memories-of-the-second-world-war-9781571819369","title":"European Memories of the Second World War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDuring the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"There is no question that this is a timely volume ... [that] provide[s] a basis for a genuinely interdisciplinary, transnational comparative discussion ... [and] could represent an important point of reference for all discussions of how to conceptualize historical memory.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Robert Moeller\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... a well focused collection of articles, all of which are of a good scholarly standard and some of which are strikingly original or illuminating.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Michael Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Southampton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e: Studying European Literary Memories\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHelmut Peitsch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: THE GERMAN SOLDIER'S MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrivate and Public Filters: Memories of War in Heinrich Böll’s Fiction and Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJ.H. Reid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: THE RESISTANCE MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThe Female Resister\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eOrdinary Heroines: Resistance and Romance in the War Fiction of Elsa Triolet\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDiana Holmes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003e‘This Book Does Not Want to Be a Work of Art. This Book Is Truth.’ The Diaries of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIrmela von der Lühe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Woman’s Perspective: Autobiography and History in Giovanna Zangrandi’s Resistance Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePenny Morris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThe Male Resister\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eVercors – Writing the Unspeakable: From \u003cem\u003eLe Silence de la mer\u003c\/em\u003e (1942) to \u003cem\u003eLa Puissance du jour\u003c\/em\u003e (1951)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam Kidd\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003e‘A History Full of Holes’? France and the French Resistance in the Work of Stephan Hermlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDennis Tate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eWar, Civil War and the Problem of Violence in Calvino and Pavese\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Morgan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eImagining Losers in Bufalino’s \u003cem\u003eDiceria dell’untore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Hainsworth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE FASCIST'S MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eMemory and Chronicle: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the \u003cem\u003eD’un château l’autre\u003c\/em\u003e Trilogy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNicholas Hewitt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003ePortrait of the Poet as a Dead Man. Ernst Jünger’s Writing in the Second World War: \u003cem\u003eStrahlungen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJustus Fetscher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eChanging Identities Through Memory: Malaparte’s Self-figurations in \u003cem\u003eKaputt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCharles Burdett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: THE VICTIM'S MEMORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eReviewing Memory: Wiesel, Testimony and Self-reading\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eColin Davis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrimo Levi. 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