This 1929 novel served as Remarque's attempt to confront and ultimately rid himself of the graphic and haunting memories of his time serving in World War I. A novel with overtones of autobiography, ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" traces the evolution of one man's powerful antiwar sentiments. This new title in the ""Bloom's Guides"" series also features an annotated bibliography, a listing of other works by the author, and an introduction by literary scholar Harold Bloom.
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The Story Behind the Story |
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Brian Murdoch on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Antiwar Novel |
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Brian Murdoch on Remarque and Homer |
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A. F. Bance on the Novel's Best-seller Status |
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Chris Daley on the Force of Silence in All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Hildegard Emmel on All Quiet on the Western Front as a Weimar Novel |
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Vita Fortunati on the Representation of World War I in Hemingway, Remarque, and Ford |
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Dorothy B. Jones on the Film Version of the Novel |
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Helmut Liedloff on a Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Alferdo Bonadeo on Paul Baumer's Relatinship to German Culture |
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Modris Eksteins on the Novel as a Postwar Commentary |
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Hans Wagener on the final
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Robert Baird on Hollywood's Ambivalence to World War I Novels |
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Wilhelm J. Schwarz on Remarque's Memorial to the Unknown Soldier |
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| Works by Erich Maria Remarque |
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| Annotated Bibliography |
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| Contributors |
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Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.
