Memory and Myth Marilyn Dear Nelson Some of the proposed remedies--an

Some of the proposed remedies--an appeal to nostalgia

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this guide shows how self-awareness

Memory and Myth Marilyn Dear Nelson Some of the proposed remedies--anMemory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which artists have sought to make sense of the war and to convey their findings to succeeding generations of readers and filmgoers. The book also examines the role of movies and television in transmuting the