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Culture in camouflage war, empire, and modern British literature

The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers' attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the.

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  • "The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers' attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the."@en
  • ""This book remaps the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. Offering the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, it explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene challenged and contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an enormously powerful mass media and culture industry. Modern war cultures, the book contends, are defined by their drive to normalize conflict and war making, by their struggle to colonize the entire wartime cultural field, and by claims to monopolize representations and interpretation of the conflict"--Abstract."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "Culture in camouflage : war, empire, and modern british literature"
  • "Culture in camouflage : war, empire, and modern British literature"
  • "Culture in Camouflage : War, Empire, and Modern British Literature"
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  • "Culture in camouflage war, empire, and modern British literature"
  • "Culture in camouflage : war, empire and modern British literature"
  • "Culture in camouflage war, empire, and modern british literature: war, empire, and modern british literature"@en
  • "Culture in camouflage. War, empire, and modern British literature"@en