Making Sense of Violence: Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare

ISBN-13: 9780367534172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Matthew D'Auria; Mark Hewitson

Opis

This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors related to the atrocious horrors of war.

Spis treści

Introduction: Making sense of modern warfare Violence
1. Memory in warfare: history as a destituent narrative
2. Progress, decline and redemption: understanding war and imagining Europe, 1870s–1890s
3. Culture, resistance and violence: guarding the Habsburg Ostgrenze with Montenegro in 1914
4. Sender, those who have not returned: Carlo Salsa and his ‘Trenches’
5. A war of words: the cultural meanings of the First World War in Britain and Germany
6. The Tannenberg myth in history and literature, 1914–1945
7. Resistance politics of non-violence: Jean Paulhan’s ’Fautrier the Enraged’ (1943)
8. The experience and the idea of war in the writings of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras
9. Violence and resistance: Joyce Lussu’s minority revolution in trans-lation