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Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Geert Buelens
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Description for Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
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The Great War created a new world order, and changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries emerged. Revolutions shocked and inspired the world. All across Europe, intellectuals reflected on the future of the continent. The Great War is often referred to as the literary war. Gavrilo Princip, who fired the shots in Sarajevo that killed Franz Ferdinand, thought of himself as a poet. During the first month of the conflict over a million poems of propaganda were written in Germany alone while English poets joined in with rhymes about Hun-hunting. In this cultural ... Read more
The Great War created a new world order, and changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries emerged. Revolutions shocked and inspired the world. All across Europe, intellectuals reflected on the future of the continent. The Great War is often referred to as the literary war. Gavrilo Princip, who fired the shots in Sarajevo that killed Franz Ferdinand, thought of himself as a poet. During the first month of the conflict over a million poems of propaganda were written in Germany alone while English poets joined in with rhymes about Hun-hunting. In this cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781491
SKU
V9781784781491
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About Geert Buelens
Geert Buelens is professor of Modern Dutch Literature and chair of the Dutch Department at Utrecht University, guest professor of Dutch Literature at Stellenbosch University (RSA) and Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. He is the author of several award winning books, and the editor of Avant Garde Critical Studies, co-editor of the Journal of Dutch Literature and a ... Read more
Reviews for Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Truly magnificent ... A choir of voices streamlined in a narrative discourse which shatters the monolithic image of the John McCrae-like melancholic War Poet. Tom de Keyzer, De Leeswolf Reads like a novel ... A story that has never been told before ... The book shows how poets all over Europe were co-responsible for the cultural crisis that ... Read more