tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22532513.post114825861973556257..comments2023-09-19T11:08:09.849-04:00Comments on The Occasional Review: Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern MemoryAkshay Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728111336477554136noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22532513.post-30315896806197722772009-12-30T10:48:30.405-05:002009-12-30T10:48:30.405-05:00Fussell's book is good EXCEPT for his assessme...Fussell's book is good EXCEPT for his assessment of David Jones's epic poem In Parenthesis, which he misreads as glorifying war by allusions to romance. The truth is that these allusions provide an emotional correlative to the horrors and loss of war--allusions, for the mostpart to legendary loss, at Roncesvalles, Camlan, Catraeth, and to horrific violence such as that of the Welsh monster Twrch Trwyth (Great Hog). Jones's long poem is the greatest literary work to emerge from the Great War and probably the greatest writing on war in English.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10140966911129636899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22532513.post-11035241407869007662008-08-31T17:41:00.000-04:002008-08-31T17:41:00.000-04:00I'm reading The Great War and Modern Memory right ...I'm reading The Great War and Modern Memory right now, and I had the exact same thought that the book's main weakness was over extending itself to draw conclusions. The binaries chapter was the most egregious and the one which stood out most in my mind. Also, the theatre of war chapter was weak I thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com