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pt. 1. Catastrophe and consolation: Homecomings: the return of the dead
Communities in mourning
Spiritualism and the 'lost generation'
War memorials and the mourning process
pt. 2. Cultural codes and languages of mourning: Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred
The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory
The apocalyptic imagination in war literature
War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.
Communities in mourning
Spiritualism and the 'lost generation'
War memorials and the mourning process
pt. 2. Cultural codes and languages of mourning: Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred
The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory
The apocalyptic imagination in war literature
War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.