Wartime
- 342 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
* Shuns the heroics portrayed by Hollywood* Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II* Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts
Paul Fussell Knihy
22. březen 1924 – 23. květen 2012
Paul Fussell byl americký kulturní a literární historik, jehož dílo se zabývalo širokou škálou témat, od odborných prací o anglické literatuře osmnáctého století po komentáře ke společenskému třídnímu systému v Americe. Jeho největší proslulost mu přinesly spisy o první a druhé světové válce, které staví na jeho vlastní zkušenosti z evropského bojiště. Fussellův styl se vyznačoval pronikavou analýzou a ostrovtipem, často s důrazem na ironii a podkopávání konvenčních představ. Jeho literární odkaz spočívá ve schopnosti osvětlit lidskou zkušenost skrze kritické zkoumání kultury a historie.
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.
The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives.
A eulogy for the lost art of traveling and an evaluation of the British writers who authored travel books
Cashmere, Cocktail, Cadillac
- 240 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
All'estero
Viaggiatori inglesi fra le due guerre
