Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
Title | Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052184603X |
Santanu Das uncovers the intimate history of how war was experienced by the body.
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
Title | Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2006-04-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139915657 |
The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
Race, Empire and First World War Writing
Title | Race, Empire and First World War Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2011-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052150984X |
Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
India, Empire, and First World War Culture
Title | India, Empire, and First World War Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2018-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107081580 |
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107018234 |
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107470080 |
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Title | The Beauty and the Sorrow PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Englund |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2012-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307739287 |
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.