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Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195133323
Landmark study of World War I, describing its effects on the nation.
Author : Bernard Bergonzi
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004721430
Author : Giovanni Capecchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527591011
Among the numerous volumes dedicated to the Great War, this book stands out for its ability to trace, in a thorough but concise manner, an overall picture of the literature born from the conflict. After its introductory pages concerning the forms, times and places of war writing, the book focuses on the story of the months of the eve of the war, on the journey to the front and the discovery of the true face of war, on the stories of the trenches, on the accounts of the imprisonment, and on the return home accompanied by disappointment and disorientation. The book, focused on Italy, but rich in references to European literature, is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, illusions and massacres. It is the story of an event that divided the collective history of Europe and individual lives. It is the account, passionate and exciting, of the literary writings born from trauma.
Author : P. Quinn,S. Trout
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230599895
This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.
Author : Adrian Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1193949221
"The Great War of 1914-18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which this war has featured both as a genre and as a theme in British literature of the past century; it asks what actually is the literature of the Great War, and looks at different ways in which people have read this literature, reacted to it and used it."--Publisher's description.
Author : Aleksandar Gatalica
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1908236205
A novel that narrates a number of stories covering the duration of World War I. It follows the destinies of over 70 characters on all warring sides including generals, opera singers, soldiers, and spies.
Author : Martin Löschnigg,Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110391527
The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.
Author : Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422467
The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.
Author : Martin Löschnigg,Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110363029
The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.
Author : Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527575394
This book explores the lives of two writers, one born in Germany (Viereck) and one born in England (Crowley), who were both influenced by decadent French writers such as Baudelaire and Mirbeau and English poets such as Swinburne and Wilde. They both wrote decadent poetry early in their careers before becoming known in literary circles as two of the most wicked writers in America (Viereck) and the world (Crowley). By their twenties, their reputations as rebels against the restrictive and stifled cultures they inhabited were firmly established. Both men enjoyed breaking with the status quo by writing poetry, short stories, and plays with exotic scenes that celebrated the beauty of the female body. Both writers were captivated by the femme fatale and her deleterious effect on her male victims, robbing them of their opportunity for transcendence into a spiritual realm. Their work, especially their love poetry, their science fiction works dealing with vampires, and articles and essays concerning the onset of the Great War are still very readable today. What is also intriguing is that, in 1915, both men were working together in New York, where Viereck was the editor of two pro-German magazines, The Fatherland and The International. Searching for an editorial position at that time, Crowley learned about an opening and was hired by Viereck. There is speculation that Crowley’s “discovery” of the job opening for these pro-German magazines was a clever plan on the part of the British secret service to place one of their agents inside the German spy network in America, of which Viereck was a key player. Propaganda, intrigue, cover-ups, and the American declaration of war on Germany all make this alliance between the two very decadent poets, and perhaps spies or even double agents, worth knowing more about.
Author : John William Cunliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:$B675644
This book is a collection of poems about the happenings of World War I.
Author : Aaron Shaheen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599629
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
Author : Professor Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472452894
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front remains the archetypal example of an anti-war novel, and one that has become synonymous with the Great War. Yet the tremendous and enduring popularity of Remarque’s work has to some extent eclipsed a plethora of other German anti-war writers. In order to provide a more rounded view, this volume offers a selection of essays published by Brian Murdoch over the past twenty years. A new introduction provides the context for the volume and survey recent developments in the subject, the essays that follow range broadly over the German anti-war literary tradition, telling us much about the shifting and contested nature of the war.
Author : David Fromkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425782
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable. In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a riveting re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.
Author : Albert Schinz
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230227822
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II PERIOD OF DOCUMENTATION--COMMENCING ABOUT THE SPRING OF 1915 Some Soldier Types In War Novels We now come to those books which relate much more objectively than those referred to previously, the facts connected directly or indirectly with the prosecution of the war. As the conflict progressed and assumed formidable proportions, changing its character from that of a war of nations in which national and political aims strove for mastery, to that of a world war in which great human principles were involved, it was both inevitable and imperative that the lyric and epic notes should die down. In the spring of 1915, the more intelligent had already realized how helpless are strong emotions to solve great problems; that the old "cliches" had served their purpose and that it was time to discard them; what the seriousness of the hour demanded then was a deep, clear, practical, sober apprehension of the realities of the hour. The most immediate interest, of course, was focussed on the soldiers who were waging the war. Some men of letters soon began to make use of what had been for many years the most common medium of art, the novel. We must, however, beg leave to draw here a sharp distinction between two kinds of novels dealing with the war. The one we will call War-Novel proper, in which the authors work up documents or personal experiences in order to make us see more deeply the significance of war itself; they apply the realistic theory of art which has been so well defined in Maupassant's Preface to Pierre et Jean; their aim is to rearrange facts in a manner which is more exact perhaps than reality but more indicative of the internal order of things, and with a view to bringing out more convincingly than mere contingencies have...
