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Title
Memories from the Frontline : Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany / by Jerry Palmer.
ISBN
3319780514
9783319780511
9783319780504
Imprint
Springer International Publishing.
Published
Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-78051-1 doi
Call Number
PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.04
Summary
This book analyses soldiers' memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors' composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. 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. It also considers the international response to the most successful of the texts. The purpose of the analysis is to show how soldiers' memoirs contributed to the collective memory of the war and how they influenced public opinion about the war. These texts are both autobiographical and historical and their relationship to the fields of autobiography and historical writing is also considered, as well as to the distinction between fact and fiction.
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Series
Palgrave studies in life writing.
Available in Other Form
3319780506
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.
