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Humour in British First World War Literature Taming the Great War
This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War worked to familiarise, domesticate, and tame the conflict. While well-known examples of...
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Royal Holloway College, the First World War and Women’s Suffrage
From the autumn of 1911, following three years as a teacher at St Elphin’s, Richmal was a university student in Classics. She joined a privileged...
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First World War Disablement
During the First World War, Galsworthy’s depression and guilt about his non-combatant role, despite his forty-seven years, short sight and injured...
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FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT
On March 25, 1964, Adorno dreamt he had gathered a mob in order to kill a psychotherapist. This psychotherapist was about to give a lecture on...
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War
This chapter examines the way Mythago Wood was inspired by experiences of Holdstock’s grandfather during the First World War. The novel is...
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Polish Post-World-War-II Exiles in Britain: The London Wiadomości and Its Cultural Milieu
The post-World War II Polish exiles in Britain were the first mass émigré group in the country, maintaining even its own government-in-exile that...
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Between the A-Bombing and Responsibilities for World War II: Changes in the Themes of Ishiguro’s Early Novels
In this chapter, Masako Matsuda explores the issues of war and responsibility by examining Ishiguro’s early works, including his unfinished novel...
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After the War, 1919–1924
The years immediately following World War One brought Edith mainly loss, with the deaths of her father in 1918, of her sister Ethel and Uncle Sam in...
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Irony and sentiment in the literary field: Prešeren’s sonnets and the Slovenian alphabet-censorship war
Restoration censorship forced European Romantic literature to retreat from society and politics into subjective intimacy, fantasy, mythology,...
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EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR II
As heterogeneous as the various artistic avantgardes of the early twentieth century may be in their programmatic orientation, they are united in the...
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The Great War
Kipling’s response to the 1914–18 war is extremely diverse, ranging from the impact on civilian life in ‘Mary Postgate’ and ‘The Gardener’ to the...
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Introduction: ‘[A]s in most war fiction, humour predominates’
Humour in British First World War Literature uncovers the huge variety of texts that include humour in depictions of the Great War. It is intended...
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War
Most literary depictions of future war have tended to be motivated by fears of militarism, military defeat, societal destruction, or transformation...
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Epic traditions in Balkan world literature
Long focused primarily on the literature of a few major European powers, comparative studies have increasingly been giving substantial attention to...
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Los Angeles as a No Man’s Land: First World War Trauma in Raymond Chandler’s Detective Fiction
In the work of American hard-boiled crime writer Raymond Chandler the city of Los Angeles is portrayed as a corrupt and decaying environment that...
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Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment
This chapter examines how Nguyễn Trí’s novel, The Fantasy of Paradise, along with his short stories from the collection Gold, Gems, Incense...
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The First Czechoslovak Republic: Literary Historiography 1918–1939
World War I not only changed the political map of Europe, but also unsettled or totally shattered many of the structures of prewar societies. As...
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Rerooting the core: Cold War anticommunism and North American Influence in Romanian postmodernism
This article examines the range of the anticommunist Cold War mindset in Romanian postmodernism and its evolution from the pre-1989 “anti-political”...
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The Political Death Penalty in World War II Writing
This final chapter focuses on the World War II experience, considering representations of civilians who are threatened with the death penalty by...