Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Personal Narratives of War
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Peripheral Theatres of War
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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