All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria RemarqueHarold Bloom Infobase Publishing, 2009 - Criticism Remarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Remarque and Other Men of Feeling | 3 |
Christ As Doomed Youth | 11 |
A Critical Comparison | 23 |
The Works of Ernst Jünger and Erich Maria Remarque on World War I | 39 |
Im Westen nichts Neues | 59 |
The Critics Views of All Quiet on the Western Front | 75 |
Liberal Education on the Western Front | 111 |
All Quiet on the Western FrontA New Direction | 117 |
Die Front ist ein Käfig | 143 |
Chronology | 157 |
Contributors | 159 |
Bibliography | 161 |
Acknowledgments | 165 |
Common terms and phrases
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