Articles by Roger Griffin, Library of Social Science

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Review: ‘The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body’
Roger Griffin, Library of Social Science – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2013

Working with case studies and sources, Wittman collates the conflicting ‘receptions’ of the tombs and their incorporation into the collective psyche. She explores their impact upon national consciousness—swollen with pride rather than diminished by the war’s human cost and bottomless grief generated by its futility and mind-numbing destructiveness.

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