Author

Publication

2015 - Verso, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

98,000 words, Guess

Page Count

392 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL30398031M
  • ISBN-139781784781491
  • ISBN-139781784781507
  • ISBN-139781784781514
  • ISBN-101784781495
and 5 more
  • ISBN-101784781509
  • ISBN-101784781517
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015028007
  • OCLC Control Number924682296
  • Better World Books9781784781491

Classifications

  • DDC809.1/041
  • LCCPN1270.5 .B83 2015
  • LCCD521

Description

"The poets' Great War--violence, revolution and modernism. The First World War changed the map of Europe forever; empires collapsed, new countries emerged, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. The Great War is often referred to as 'the literary war,' the war that saw both the birth of modernism and the precursors of futurism. During the first few months in Germany alone there were over a million poems of propaganda written. In this cultural history of the First World War, the conflict is seen from the point of view of poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke, Alexander Blok, James Joyce, Fernando Pessoa, Andre Breton and Siegfried Sassoon. Everything to Nothing is a transnational history of how nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and post-war dealings--revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil wars, Versailles--and of how poets played a vital role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of postwar Europe"--

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