|
Showing 1 - 17 of
17 matches in All Departments
This edited collection explores and develops representations of war
experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century,
through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent
explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping
cultural memory that have focused on the aftermath of the First
World War and the Second World War, particularly through Holocaust
studies. These essays, by a range of international and
interdisciplinary scholars, broaden the scope considerably,
examining the alternate spaces of the First World War and those
that followed it through a range of different media, offering an
artistic trajectory to the centennial commemorations of 2014-18.
This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War
experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered
in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins
of popular understanding of the war. The landscape of the western
front was captured during the conflict in many different ways: in
photographs, paintings and print. The most commonly replicated
voicing of contemporary attitudes towards the war is that of
initial enthusiasm giving way to disillusionment and a sense of
overwhelming futility. Investigations of the many components of war
experience drawn from social and cultural history have looked to
landscapes and voices beyond the frontline as a means of
foregrounding different perspectives on the war. Not all of the
voices presented here opposed the war, and not all of the
landscapes were comprised of trenches or flanked by barbed wire.
Collectively, they combine to offer further fresh insights into the
multiplicity of war experience, an alternate space to the familiar
tropes of mud and mayhem.
This edited collection explores and develops representations of war
experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century,
through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent
explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping
cultural memory that have focused on the aftermath of the First
World War and the Second World War, particularly through Holocaust
studies. These essays, by a range of international and
interdisciplinary scholars, broaden the scope considerably,
examining the alternate spaces of the First World War and those
that followed it through a range of different media, offering an
artistic trajectory to the centennial commemorations of 2014-18.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
In the first in-depth study of the relationship between the
suffrage campaign in Britain and World War I, Angela K. Smith
explores the links between these two defining moments of the early
twentieth century. Did the opportunities afforded by the war enable
women finally and irrefutably to demonstrate their right to full
citizenship? Or did World War I actually postpone women's
enfranchisement? Although the Suffrage Movement was divided by the
outbreak of war, many women continued to campaign for the vote,
producing a wide variety of fictional and nonfictional 'suffrage
texts'. Whether the writing of these women demonstrated their
patriotism, pacifism, or ambivalence, it formed an integral part of
their political responses to the war. Through textual/literary
analysis of Suffrage magazines, wartime diaries, and a range of
topical novels, Smith explores these responses within historical,
social, and cultural contexts to understand the impact of the war
on the success of the campaign in 1918 and the consequences for the
years that followed.
This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War
experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered
in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins
of popular understanding of the war. The landscape of the western
front was captured during the conflict in many different ways: in
photographs, paintings and print. The most commonly replicated
voicing of contemporary attitudes towards the war is that of
initial enthusiasm giving way to disillusionment and a sense of
overwhelming futility. Investigations of the many components of war
experience drawn from social and cultural history have looked to
landscapes and voices beyond the frontline as a means of
foregrounding different perspectives on the war. Not all of the
voices presented here opposed the war, and not all of the
landscapes were comprised of trenches or flanked by barbed wire.
Collectively, they combine to offer further fresh insights into the
multiplicity of war experience, an alternate space to the familiar
tropes of mud and mayhem.
Human displacement has always been a consequence of war, written
into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However, the
global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to
civilizations on an unprecedented scale, as the two World Wars
shifted participants around the globe. Although driven by political
disputes between European powers, the consequences of Empire
ensured that Europe could not contain them. Soldiers traversed
continents, and civilians often followed them, or found themselves
living in territories ruled by unexpected invaders. Both wars saw
fighting in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, and
few nations remained neutral. Both wars saw the mass upheaval of
civilian populations as a consequence of the fighting.
Displacements were geographical, cultural, and psychological; they
were based on nationality, sex/gender or age. They produced an
astonishing range of human experience, recorded by the participants
in different ways. This book brings together a collection of
inter-disciplinary works by scholars who are currently producing
some of the most innovative and influential work on the subject of
displacement in war, in order to share their knowledge and
interpretations of historical and literary sources. The collection
unites historians and literary scholars in addressing the issues of
war and displacement from multiple angles. Contributors draw on a
wealth of primary source materials and resources including archives
from across the world, military records, medical records, films,
memoirs, diaries and letters, both published and private, and
fictional interpretations of experience.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|