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Fierce imaginings
Book • 2017
In 'Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God,' Rachel Mann examines how poetry and ritual shaped understandings of the First World War and its aftermath.
She explores the interplay between literary expression and religious practices of mourning, showing how communities processed mass bereavement.
Mann's scholarly approach combines close readings of wartime poetry with historical analysis of memorial rituals and theological reflection.
The book highlights how language and ritual negotiate collective trauma and the cultural work of remembrance.
Mann's work contributes to scholarship on war, memory, and religion by tracing how imaginative responses helped societies make sense of unprecedented loss.
She explores the interplay between literary expression and religious practices of mourning, showing how communities processed mass bereavement.
Mann's scholarly approach combines close readings of wartime poetry with historical analysis of memorial rituals and theological reflection.
The book highlights how language and ritual negotiate collective trauma and the cultural work of remembrance.
Mann's work contributes to scholarship on war, memory, and religion by tracing how imaginative responses helped societies make sense of unprecedented loss.
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