Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914-18)

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 dire...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Issues in Literature and Culture,
Subjects:
History, Modern.
Theater-History.
Language and education.
ISBN:9783319668512
ISSN:2365-967X
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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