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The missing of the Somme / Geoff Dyer.
- Title
- The missing of the Somme / Geoff Dyer.
- Author
- Dyer, Geoff
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | D663 .D97 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 157 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- This reflection on World War I is not your standard history; it's about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented. It will appeal to readers interested in looking beyond the facts to the meaning and consequences of war in general.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Art
- Note
- Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The anticipation of memory -- 'One thinks for the moment no other monument is needed'-Lutyens -- The surrogate dead -- Ton construction of memory -- What has he seen? -- 'And the poor horses...'-Constantine -- The weight of the past -- Dead weight -- Charles Sargeant Jagger : memorial at Paddington station -- They are all over the country, these Tommies... -- Elland Memorial -- The self-contained ideal of remembrance -- Time -- Mourning for all mankind -- The only sound... -- The Canadian Memorial on Vimy Ridge -- Grief... -- 'Totenlandschaft' -- The ruins of Ypres Cathedral, summer 1916 -- The Monk by the Sea . Caspar David Friedrich -- An infinity of waste.
- ISBN
- 9780307742971 (pbk.)
- 0307742970 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012450530
- OCLC
- 676726852
- SCSB-11231155
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library