| Memories from the Frontline: Memoirs and Meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Palmer, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319780506 ISBN-13: 9783319780504 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 355 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.26 lbs) 339 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |