Thewar to end all myths–
and create
newones.
The ghastly realities of trench warfare
utterly destroyed Victonan idealism and made
irony the dominant mode of modern literature.
Paul Fussell considers some of the literary
means by which the experience of the Western
Front has been remembered, conventional–
ized, and mythologized in "an original and
brilliant piece of cultural history .. one of the
most deeply movmg books that
I
have
THE
read in a long time:'
- LIonel Trilling
GREAT WAR AND
MODERN MEMORY
Paul Fussell
Illustrated, $13.95
Also aVaJlable
WILFRED OWEN: ABiography
JonStailwortiw
Illustrated, $1850
"A really admirable and scholarly biographY:'
- Times Literary Supplement
OXFORD UNIVERSITV PRESS
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