Memories and Representations of War.

Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index Contents Elena Lamberti: Introduction Part 1: Cross-readings of World War I and World War II Astrid Erll: Wars We Have Seen: Literature as a Medium of Collective Memory in the "Age of Extremes" Vita Fortunati: Writing as Testimony in the European Narrative after the First and Second World Wars Antonio Gibelli: Memory and Repression: Psychiatric Sources and the History of Modern Wars Alberto De Bernardi: The World Wars and the History of Italy: Public, Shared and Disputed Memories Roberto Balzani: Urban Toponymy, Cultural Memory and the World Wars Cesare Giacobazzi: Contaminated Memory in Günter Grass' My Century: Literary and Journalistic Accounts on War Elena Lamberti: The Experience of War and the Search for Identity in US Narratives of World War I and World War II Daniela Fortezza: "Strange Growths": The World Wars as Agents and Markers of Change in Women's Writing Annamaria Lamarra: War in Women's Experience and Writing Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga: "I Hear Sounds of Spain": Foreign Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War Part II: World War I and World War II: Sacralization, Commemoration, Imagination, Silence Max Saunders: War Literature, Bearing Witness, and the Problem of Sacralization: Trauma and Desire in the Writing of Mary Borden and Others Jonathan Kear: Spectres of the Past, Inhabitations of the Present: Jochen Gerz and the Problem of Commemoration Camila Loew: Representing the Extreme: Reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras El Cristal Sara Pesce: Film and War Imaginary: the Hollywood Combat and Cultural Memory of World War II Gabriella Elina Imposti: "God's Playground": Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's Cinema Raul Calzoni: Chasms of Silence: The Luftkrieg in German Literature from a Reunification Perspective Oliver Janz: Death and Mourning in the Memory of World War I in Italy Alberto Casadei: The Dead Hero, The Dead Body: Anti-Epic and Research of Meaning in the Fictional Representation of World War II Roberto Bigazzi: Taricco's Memory Notes on Contributors Index