Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays On The Great War (1914?18) (Second Language Learning And Teaching)

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. 9783319883274 3319883275 286 BOOK History http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tyP4vwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tyP4vwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api en 9783319883274

• | Author: Anthony Barker, Maria Eugénia Pereira, Maria Teresa Cortez, Paulo Alexandre Pereira, Otília Martins
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 297 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3319883275
• | ISBN-13: 9783319883274