World War I : a historical exploration of literature / Eugene Edward Beiriger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beiriger, Eugene Edward, 1958- author.

Series:

Historical explorations of literature.

Historical explorations of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory and literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Soldiers' writings--History and criticism.

Soldiers' writings.

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 238 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents. It provides context and explores thematic elements with primary source documents, such as diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, speeches, and government publications.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Background

Chronology

1 Under Fire (Henri Barbusse, 1916)

Synopsis of Under Fire

Historical Background of Under Fire: The First Years of the Western Front in the First World War

About Henri Barbusse

Why We Read Under Fire

Historical Explorations of Under Fire

Documenting Under Fire

Trench Warfare: The War of Attrition

Document: General Erich von Falkenhayn, "Christmas Letter" to Kaiser Wilhelm II (1915)

Document: Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Letter to Newspapers (May 1916)

Document: Paul Painlevé, Speech on Failure of the French Army (July 7, 1917)

Document: Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Order to Troops (April 11, 1918)

Officers and Soldiers

Document: Selections from the Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas (1915-1916)

Document: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Graeme West (1916)

Document: E. A. Mackintosh, "In Memoriam: Private David Sutherland" (1918)

The Enemy

Document: Fritz Kreisler, Four Weeks in the Trenches (1915)

Document: Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel (1920)

Suggested Readings

2 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque, 1929)

Synopsis of All Quiet on the Western Front

Historical Background of All Quiet on the Western Front: The Last Years of the Western Front in the First World War

About Erich Maria Remarque

Why We Read All Quiet on the Western Front

Historical Explorations of All Quiet on the Western Front

Documenting All Quiet on the Western Front

Governments at War

Document: German Government, "Censorship Guidelines (Supplement)" (November 9, 1914).

Document: UK Government, "Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act" (November 27, 1914)

Documents: U.S. Government, "Espionage Act" (1917) and "Sedition Act" (1918)

Comradery

Document: Selections from the Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas (1914-1918)

Document: Siegfried Sassoon, Two Poems Written at Craiglockhart War Hospital, "Sick Leave" and "Banishment" (1918)

Survival: Masculinity and Manliness

Document: Sophus Lange, Letters (1914-1915)

Document: Franz Kreisler, Four Weeks in the Trenches (1915)

3 Poetry of the First World War: Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"

John McCrae, "In Flanders Field"

Siegfried Sassoon, "The Redeemer"

Wilfred Owen, "Dolce et Decorum Est

Synopses of the Poems

Historical Background of the Poems: "Oh, What a Literary War": Writers and the Western Front in the First World War

About the Poets

Why We Read These Poems

Historical Explorations of the Poems

Documenting the Poems

Recruitment and Propaganda

Document: Rupert Brooke, "Peace" (1915)

Document: UK Government, Bryce Committee Report on "Alleged German Outrages" (1915)

Document: UK Government, "Women of Britain" Recruitment Poster (1915)

Document: German Government, "The Better Part of Valor" Leaflet (1918)

Objection to War and Disillusionment

Document: German Government, "Secret Decree of the Prussian Ministry of War of November 7, 1915, on Intensified Measures to Suppress the Bourgeois-Pacifist Anti-War Movement" (November 7, 1915)

Document: Bertrand Russell, Justice in War-Time (1916)

Document: Lord Lansdowne, "Letter to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph" (November 23, 1917)

Moral Obligation of the Writer.

Document: Rudyard Kipling, "As They Tested Our Fathers" (September 8, 1914)

Document: George Bernard Shaw, "Common Sense about the War" (November 14, 1914)

Document: Siegfried Sassoon, "Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration" (1917)

Documents: Siegfried Sassoon, "Introduction" and Wilfred Owen, "Preface" in Poems of Wilfred Owen (1920)

Wilfred Owen, "Preface" (1920)

Documents: Rudyard Kipling, Three Two-Line Poems from "Epitaphs of War," in The Years Between (1919) and Siegfried Sassoon, "On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1928)

Siegfried Sassoon, "On Passing the Menin Gate" (1928)

4 A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929)

Synopsis of A Farewell to Arms

Historical Background of A Farewell to Arms: The Italo-Austrian Front in the First World War

About Ernest Hemingway

Why We Read A Farewell to Arms

Historical Explorations of A Farewell to Arms

Documenting A Farewell to Arms

Volunteers

Ambulance Drivers

Document: Henry Sheahan (aka Henry Beston), A Volunteer Poilu (1916)

Document: G.M. Trevelyan, Scenes from Italy's War (1919)

Nurses

Document: Enid Bagnold, Diary without Dates (1918)

Document: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)

Women at War

Document: Selections from the Diary of Isabelle Rimbaud (1914)

Document: Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz, When the Prussians Came to Poland (1916)

Document: Rebecca West, "Women of England" (1916)

Shell Shock

Document: Thomas Salmon, M.D., Care and Treatment of Mental Disorders and War Neuroses ("Shell Shock") in the British Army (1917)

Document: Siegfried Sassoon, "Repression of War Experience" (1918)

Document: W.H.R. Rivers, M.D., "Repression of War Experience" (1918)

Document: Lewis Yealland, M.D., Hysterical Disorders of Warfare (1918).

Suggested Readings

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798216039273

9798216168683

9781440854354

1440854351

OCLC:

1044771417

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798216039273