Research Catalog

Title

Memories from the frontline : memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany / Jerry Palmer.

Author

Palmer, Jerry

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 339 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in life writing

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in life writing.

Alternative Title

Memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany

Subjects

• Personal narratives > English
• Personal narratives > French
• World War (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, French
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, English
• Soldiers' writings > History and criticism
• Personal narratives > German
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, German
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Personal narratives – English.
• Personal narratives – French.
• Personal narratives – German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.

Contents

Part I. The outline of Great War writings : The Great War genres -- Marginal voices -- Literary language and war memoirs -- Part II. Britain : Themes in British reviews of Great War memoirs -- Blunden, "Undertones of War" and "De Bello Germanico" -- Reading Lawrence in 1927: "Revolt in the Desert" and "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" -- Part III. France : Henry d'Estre, "D'Oran à Arras -- Reading Barbusse, "Le Feu (Under Fire)," in 1916-1917 -- Maurice Genevoix, "Ceux de 14 (The Men of 14)" -- After the war and the Norton Cru quarrel Part iV. -- Germany : War memoirs and German politics in the 1920s -- Contrasting versions of nationalism at war's end -- Ludwig Renn, "Krieg (War)" -- von Salomon, "die Geächteten (The Outlaws)" -- Transnational comparisons -- Part V. Conclusion : Conclusion: summary and some theoretical implications of the study of Great War memoirs.

Call Number

JFD 19-4942

ISBN

• 9783319780504
• 3319780506
• 9783030086091
• 3030086097
• 9783319780511 (canceled/invalid)
• 3319780514 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018936590

OCLC

1023548469

Author

Palmer, Jerry, author.

Title

Memories from the frontline : memoirs and meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany / Jerry Palmer.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in life writing

Palgrave studies in life writing.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.

Chronological Term

1914-1918

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783319780511

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4942