![]() ![]() But his career changed in 1975, when he published “The Great War and Modern Memory,” a monumental study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. Fussell followed a conventional academic path, teaching and writing on literary topics, specializing in 18th-century British poetry and prose. His stepson Cole Behringer said he died of natural causes in the long-term care facility where he had spent the last two years.įrom the 1950s into 1970s, Mr. ![]() ![]() Paul Fussell, the wide-ranging, stingingly opinionated literary scholar and cultural critic whose admiration for Samuel Johnson, Kingsley Amis and the Boy Scout Handbook and his withering scorn for the romanticization of war, the predominance of television and much of American society were dispensed in more than 20 books, died on Wednesday in Medford, Ore. ![]()
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