Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars

by Janis P. Stout

World War I is widely considered "the Great War" and World War II, "the Good War." Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief they embody. In Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars Stout argues that poetry, of all the arts, most fully captures and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817314725
• ISBN13: 9780817314729
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"