Memories from the Frontline

Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany

AvJerry Palmer

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in the language used to describe combat, and through an analysis of those people whose accounts of the war were either excluded or marginalised.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Antal sidor:339
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030086091

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Militärhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK and Visiting Professor of Sociology at City University. He is the author of six other books and many scholarly articles about popular culture and the mass media.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Great War genes.- 2. Marginal Voices.- 3. Language and Combat.- 4. Themes in British reviews of Great War memoirs.- 5. Blunder, Undertones of War and De Bello Germanico.- 6. Reading Lawrence of Arabia in 1927.- 7. Henry d'Estre, From Oran to Arras.- 8. Reading Barbusse, Under Fire in 1917.- 9. Genevoix, The Men of 14.- 10. The Norton Cru affair.- 11. War memoirs and German politics in the 1920s.- 12. Contrasting versions of nationalism at war's end.- 13. Renn, War.- 14. von Salomon, The Outlaws (Les Réprouvés).- 15. Transnational comparisons.