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The poetry of shell shock : wartime trauma and healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon / by Daniel Hipp.
- Title
- The poetry of shell shock : wartime trauma and healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon / by Daniel Hipp.
- Author
- Hipp, Daniel W.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR605.W65 H57 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- v, 218 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for Owen, Gurney and Sassoon to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918 > Criticism and interpretation
- Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937 > Criticism and interpretation
- Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
- English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Literature and the war
- War neuroses > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Soldiers' writings, English > History and criticism
- War poetry, English > History and criticism
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Shell shock in World War I -- "By degress / Regained cool peaceful air in wonder" : Wilfred Owen, shell shock, and poetic identity -- "Strange hells within the minds war made" : Ivor Gurney and the poetic reconstitution of identity -- "Are they not still your brothers through our blood?" : Siegfried Sassoon, shell shock, and living through the dead -- War and modern poetry.
- ISBN
- 0786421746 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005012773
- OCLC
- 60373587
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library