The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It provides careful readings of a wide range of sources: letters exchanged by Henry James and Burgess Noakes, spoken accounts of the Old Believers of the Russian Orthodox Church, historical documents concerning Eastern Europe and the United States, travel writings by Fritz Wertheimer, Hermann Struck, and Herbert Eulenberg, literary texts by Lord Dunsany, Miroslav Krle a, and Gustav Meyrink, theater performances in Italy and Ireland and visual arts: masks for facially disfigured...
The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It provides careful readings of a wide r...
This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities. The contributors not only revive the meanings and values as they were lived at the time of creating the specific works, but also point to the ways in which these meanings continue to function for contemporary readers.
This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the...