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Memory, Narrative and the Great War - Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Memory, Narrative and the Great War - Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Memory, Narrative and the Great War provides a detailed examination
of the varied and complex war writings of a relatively marginal
figure, Patrick MacGill, within a general framework of our current
pre-occupation with blood, mud and suffering. In particular, it
seeks to explain how his interpretation of war shifted from the
heroic wartime autobiographical trilogy, with its emphasis on 'the
romance of the rifleman' to the pessimistic and guilt-ridden
interpretations in his post-war novel, Fear!, and play, Suspense.
Through an exploration of the way in which war-time experiences
were remembered (and re-remembered) and retold in strikingly
different narratives, and using insights from cognitive psychology,
it is argued that there is no contradiction between these two
seemingly opposing views. Instead it is argued that, given the
present orientation and problem-solving nature of both memory and
narrative, the different interpretations are both 'true' in the
sense that they throw light on the ongoing way in which MacGill
came to terms with his experiences of war. This in turn has
implications for broader interpretations of the Great War, which
has increasingly be seen in terms of futile suffering, not least
because of the eloquent testimony of ex-Great War soldiers,
reflecting on their experiences many years after the event. Without
suggesting that such testimony is invalid, it is argued that this
is one view but not the only view of the war. Rather wartime memory
and narrative is more akin to an ever-changing kaleidoscope, in
which pieces of memory take on different (but equally valid) shapes
as they are shaken with the passing of time.
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