Paul Fussell Volgorde van de boeken
22 maart 1924 – 23 mei 2012
Paul Fussell was een Amerikaanse culturele en literaire historicus, wiens werk uiteenlopende onderwerpen bestreek, van wetenschappelijke verkenningen van de Engelse literatuur uit de achttiende eeuw tot scherpe commentaren op het Amerikaanse klassensysteem. Hij is vooral bekend om zijn diepgaande geschriften over de Wereldoorlogen, sterk beïnvloed door zijn eigen ervaringen als infanterieofficier in Europa. Fussells proza wordt gekenmerkt door zijn scherpe intellect, waarbij vaak ironie en een scherp oog voor de absurditeit van menselijk gedrag en sociale structuren worden gehanteerd. Zijn literaire nalatenschap ligt in zijn unieke vermogen om de menselijke conditie te verhelderen door kritische beschouwingen van cultuur en geschiedenis.
- 1995
- 1989
Wartime
- 342bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
* Shuns the heroics portrayed by Hollywood* Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II* Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts
- 1988
All'estero
Viaggiatori inglesi fra le due guerre
- 1984
The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives.
- 1980
A eulogy for the lost art of traveling and an evaluation of the British writers who authored travel books
- 1977
In this classic work Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which the Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this award-winning volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of an event that revolutionized the way we see the world.
