AQA A: Paper 2A World War I and its aftermath
In the Preface to The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell states that he will explore ‘some of the literary means by which [the War] has been remembered’. He refers to the ‘iconography’ of the Great War and its generation of a powerful new mythology, which is now ‘part of the fiber of our own lives’. The enduring impact of the First World War on the British psyche is undeniable; every Remembrance Sunday the scarlet poppy reminds us of Flanders Fields, not of the many bloody conflicts which came after. This leads to a key question for any student of First World War literature: whose voices are responsible for creating our abiding ‘memory’ of a conflict that ended more than a century ago?
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