Irony and the Poetry of the First World War

Informationen zum Autor SUSANNE C. PUISSANT received her first degree of English, Theology and French at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. From 2004-2007 she held a scholarship at Jacobs University, Bremen where she completed her PhD in Literature in 2007 and taught various courses. She now works as a teacher of English at a grammar school in Germany. Klappentext How does irony affect the evaluation and perception of the First World War both then and now? Irony and the Poetry of the First World War traces one of the major features of war poetry from the author's application as a means of disguise, criticism or psychological therapy to its perception and interpretation by the reader. Zusammenfassung How does irony affect the evaluation and perception of the First World War both then and now? Irony and the Poetry of the First World War traces one of the major features of war poetry from the author's application as a means of disguise, criticism or psychological therapy to its perception and interpretation by the reader. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Evasion Confrontation Resignation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Evasion Confrontation Resignation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: S Puissant, S. Puissant, Susanne Christine Puissant
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780230576933
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57693-3
• No. of pages: 211
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Poetry, military history, world history, General & world history, Literature: history & criticism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History of Military, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection