Bibliograph

The poetry of shell shock, wartime trauma and healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon, by Daniel Hipp

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The poetry of shell shock, wartime trauma and healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon, by Daniel Hipp

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The poetry of shell shock

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60373587

Responsibility statement

by Daniel Hipp

Sub title

wartime trauma and healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon

Summary

"This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for Owen, Gurney and Sassoon to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Shell shock in World War I -- "By degress / Regained cool peaceful air in wonder" : Wilfred Owen, shell shock, and poetic identity -- "Strange hells within the minds war made" : Ivor Gurney and the poetic reconstitution of identity -- "Are they not still your brothers through our blood?" : Siegfried Sassoon, shell shock, and living through the dead -- War and modern poetry

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