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

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Editors:
  1. Anthony Barker

    1. Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  2. Maria Eugénia Pereira

    1. Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  3. Maria Teresa Cortez

    1. Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  4. Paulo Alexandre Pereira

    1. Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  5. Otília Martins

    1. Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  • Offers a different perspective: from theaters and also from the home front, as part of the specialist bibliography that this 4-year-long event has inspired
  • Explores topics that are rarely covered in the fields of history and cultural studies
  • Widens our understanding of the impact of this cataclysm, generally seen through the prism of the main combatant countries, and notably in the context of the Western Front
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Literature and Culture (ILC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Personal Narratives of War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Leisure and Free Time in the Trenches of Flanders: Américo Olavo’s Account

      • José Barbosa Machado
      Pages 3-17

    3. Opening the Eyes of Memory: War Painting in Adriano Sousa Lopes and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

      • Maria Teresa Amado, Ana Rita Rodrigues
      Pages 19-45

    4. Remembering the War, Imagining the Nation: The First World War Memoirs of the “Portuguese Renaissance”

      • Ernesto Castro Leal
      Pages 47-64

    5. 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)

      • Laurence Olivier-Messonnier
      Pages 65-76

    6. Speeches and Letters From Enlisting Children (France, 1914–1918)

      • Daniel Aranda
      Pages 77-91

    7. Ambivalence and Opportunism Concerning the Great War in Céline’s Novel Casse-Pipe

      • Ilse Zigtema
      Pages 93-109

    8. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches’ Medical Writing: An Apologia for Industrial and Social Modernization

      • Ana Maria Alves
      Pages 111-119

    9. Sharing Grief: Local and Peripheral Dimensions of the Great War in Contemporary French, British and Canadian Literature

      • Anna Branach-Kallas, Piotr Sadkowski
      Pages 121-133

    10. William, an Englishman (1919) and the Collapse of Cicely Hamilton’s Pre-war Meliorism

      • Luísa Flora
      Pages 135-152

    11. Of Body and Mind, of Matter and Spirit: War and Melancholia in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1938 and 1971)

      • Elsa Machado, Anthony Barker
      Pages 153-165

  3. Peripheral Theatres of War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Pogrom of Jews During and After World War I: The Destruction of the Jewish Idea of Galicia

      • Jagoda Wierzejska
      Pages 169-184

    3. Franz Rosenzweig’s Mitteleuropa as a New Levante

      • Jörg Kreienbrock
      Pages 185-200

    4. Indian Nationalists’ Cooperation with Soviet Russia in Central Asia: The Case of M.P.T. Acharya

      • Lina Bernstein
      Pages 201-214

    5. The Population Exchange Between Turkey and Greece After the First World War and the Subsequent Problems

      • Selahattin Önder, Abdullatif Acarlioğlu
      Pages 215-223

    6. African Queens and Ice-Cream Wars: Fictional and Filmic Versions of the East African Conflict of 1914–18

      • Anthony Barker
      Pages 225-238

    7. “An Impossible Thing”: Danish Neutrality in the First World War, Its Causes and Consequences

      • David Schauffler
      Pages 239-254

    8. A Bestiary of War: Humanimalities in the Trenches

      • Márcia Seabra Neves
      Pages 255-269
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About this book

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 directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Anthony Barker, Maria Eugénia Pereira, Maria Teresa Cortez, Paulo Alexandre Pereira, Otília Martins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)

  • Editors: Anthony Barker, Maria Eugénia Pereira, Maria Teresa Cortez, Paulo Alexandre Pereira, Otília Martins

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66851-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66850-5Published: 09 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88327-4Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66851-2Published: 14 December 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Modern History, Theatre History, Language Education

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