The Great War in British Literature
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The Great War in British Literature

Adrian Barlow
June 2000
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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

AUD$16.95
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    The Great War of 1914-18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which this war has featured both as a genre and as a theme in British literature of the past century; it asks what actually is the literature of the Great War, and looks at different ways in which people have read this literature, reacted to it and used it.

    Features

    • Each title includes a wide-ranging yet carefully levelled introductory discussion of a literary period, genre or theme, to provide students with an excellent introduction to an area of literature.
    • Helps students to address the new assessment objective 4 ('demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received') - worth up to 35% of the A level qualification under new guidelines.
    • Discussion questions and end-of-section tasks offer an invaluable resource for self study as well as helpful exam preparation.
    • A mini-anthology of texts and extracts saves teachers time searching for appropriate 'wider reading' texts.

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Reading the Great War
    • 2. Approaching the texts
    • 3. Texts and extracts
    • 4. Critical approaches
    • 5. How to write about the Great War in British literature
    • 6. Resources.