Reading Literature as Collective Texts

German and English War Novels of the 1920s as Media of Cultural and Communicative Memory

Authors

  • Astrid Erll Gießen Collaborative Research Centre

Abstract

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Author Biography

  • Astrid Erll, Gießen Collaborative Research Centre

    Astrid Erll studied English and German at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. In 2002 she finished her dissertation, a study on the memory of the First World War in German and English literatures and cultures of the 1920s. Since 2003 she has been working at the Gießen Collaborative Research Centre Cultures of Memory (Sonderforschungsbereich 434 Erinnerungskulturen), where she is involved in a project on Britain’s imperial memory. Her recent publications have been on the literary and cultural history of the First World War, cultural theory and concepts of memory, and narratology (e.g. Gedächtnisromane, 2003).

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1-2 (2004): Public Memory

Section

Main Section

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How to Cite

Erll, A. (2026). Reading Literature as Collective Texts: German and English War Novels of the 1920s as Media of Cultural and Communicative Memory. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 18(1-2). https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27530