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Memories from the frontline :

3319780514

9783319780511

3319780506

9783319780504

Memories from the frontline :

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memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany /

Jerry Palmer.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource

Palgrave studies in life writing

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Part I The Outline of Great War Writings; Chapter 2 The Great War Genres; Collective Memory and Documentation; Histories and Memoirs; Memoirs from Above: Strategy; Memoirs from Below: Personal Experience; Positive and Negative Accounts of the Experience of Combat; Public Response; References; Chapter 3 Marginal Voices; Women's War Writing; Colonial Subjects' War Memoirs; Shirkers and Malingerers; References; Chapter 4 Literary Language and War Memoirs; Heroic Language; The New Language of Combat; References; Part II Britain.

Chapter 12 War Memoirs and German Politics in the 1920sReferences; Chapter 13 Contrasting Versions of Nationalism at War's End; Flex, Der Wanderer Zwischen Beiden Welten (The Wanderer Between the Two Worlds); von Richthofen, Der Rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flyer); Jünger, In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel); References; Chapter 14 Ludwig Renn, Krieg (War); References; Chapter 15 von Salomon, die Geächteten (The Outlaws); References; Chapter 16 Transnational Comparisons; Barbusse, Under Fire; Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert; Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front; References.

Chapter 5 Themes in British Reviews of Great War MemoirsReferences; Chapter 6 Blunden, Undertones of War and De Bello Germanico; References; Chapter 7 Reading Lawrence in 1927: Revolt in the Desert and Seven Pillars of Wisdom; References; Part III France; Chapter 8 Henry d'Estre, D'Oran à Arras; References; Chapter 9 Reading Barbusse, Le Feu (Under Fire), in 1916-1917; References; Chapter 10 Maurice Genevoix, Ceux de 14 (The Men of 14); References; Chapter 11 After the War and the Norton Cru Quarrel; The Controversy and Publishing History of Cru; References; Part IV Germany.

Part V ConclusionChapter 17 Conclusion: Summary and Some Theoretical Implications of the Study of Great War Memoirs; References; Bibliography; Index.

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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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Memories from the frontline.

9783319780504

World War, 1914-1918, Personal narratives, English.

World War, 1914-1918, Personal narratives, French.

World War, 1914-1918, Personal narratives, German.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.

HIS-- 010020

Palmer, Jerry

20200823112849.0

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