Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

Informationen zum Autor Santanu Das is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext Santanu Das uncovers the intimate history of how war was experienced by the body. Zusammenfassung The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale! yet soldiers experienced moments of great tenderness and physical intimacy in the trenches. Santanu Das opens up new ways of understanding First World War writing through an intimate history of how war was experienced by the body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Touch is the spirit and rule of all'; Part I. Mud: 1. 'A real monster that sucked': the threat of mud in First World War literature; 2. Muddy narratives; Part II. Intimacies: 3. 'Kiss me, Hardy': the dying kiss in the First World War trenches; 4. Wilfred Owen and the sense of touch; Part III. Wounds: 5. 'Deep into his body': service, sympathy and suffering in the nurses' memoirs; 6. The operating theatre; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Santanu Das, Santanu (Queen Mary University of London) Das, Das Santanu
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06687-7
• Seiten: 284
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism