4238737The New Deathhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-new-death-9780813934099/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2620532/3fe8d36d-9d81-41d3-8e61-3d749170445d.jpg?v=638384224465800000628697MXNUniversity of Virginia PressInStock/Ebooks/Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed deaths cultural meaning....4174567The New Death628697https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-new-death-9780813934099/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2620532/3fe8d36d-9d81-41d3-8e61-3d749170445d.jpg?v=638384224465800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20139780813934099_W3siaWQiOiJmODA5YjFjNC01MThjLTQwY2EtYmFlMi0yOTEzZTUxYmRmMmUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjY4MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjY4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjYxMiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMjJUMjI6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780813934099_Adopting the term new death, which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed deaths cultural meaning.(*_*)9780813934099_Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed deaths cultural meaning....9780813934099_University of Virginia Presslibro_electonico_40ff541a-c138-3226-874b-6180f7276a62_9780813934099;9780813934099_9780813934099Pearl JamesInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-a2860ec3-cb7d-457a-aca2-d35445e25952.epub2013-04-22T00:00:00+00:00University of Virginia Press