War Stories : the War Memoir in History and Literature.

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Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre's surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dwyer, Philip G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016.
Temas:
Military biography > History.
Soldiers > Biography > History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
War in literature.
Autobiography.
Biography.
Écrits de militaires > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Guerre dans la littérature.
Autobiographie.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
autobiography (genre)
biography (general genre)
HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other).
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form
Military biography
Soldiers > Biography
Soldiers' writings
War in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • War Stories; War Stories
  • The War Memoir in History and Literature
  • Edited by Philip Dwyer; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Making Sense of the Muddle; Chapter 2 War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence; Chapter 3 'A Lively School of Writing'; Chapter 4 'The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest'; Chapter 5 British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War; Chapter 6 A Cog in the Machine of History?; Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War; Chapter 8 Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic; Chapter 9 The War That Was Not; Chapter 10 Remembering the 'Endless' Partition.
  • Chapter 11 'To Be Made Over'Chapter 12 Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy; Chapter 13 Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism; Index.

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