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Title
Personal narratives, peripheral theatres : essays on the Great War (1914-18) / Anthony Barker, Maria Eugénia Pereira, Maria Teresa Cortez, Paulo Alexandre Pereira, Otília Martins, editors.
ISBN
9783319668512 (electronic book)
331966851X (electronic book)
9783319668505
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
D509
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.3
Summary
This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Series
Second language learning and teaching. Issues in literature and culture.
Leisure and Free Time in the Trenches of Flanders: Américo Olavo’s Account
Opening the Eyes of Memory: War Painting in Adriano Sousa Lopes and Amadeo de Souza Cardoso
War Remembered, Nation Imagined: First World War Memoirs of the 'Portuguese Renaissance’
An Original Example of Exploring the Inner Self through the Archives of a Diary: André Fontaine, Jean Corentin Carré, the youngest hero of the Great War (1900- 1915-1918)
Speeches and Letters from Enlisting Children (France, 1914-1918)
Ambivalence and Opportunism concerning the Great War in Céline’s Novel Casse-pipe.
