Making Sense of Violence (eBook, PDF)

Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
Redaktion: D'Auria, Matthew; Hewitson, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000169836
• Artikelnr.: 60583074

Autorenporträt

Matthew D'Auria is an intellectual historian working at the University of East Anglia, UK. His main research interest lies in the relationship between images of the nation and discourses about Europe in the modern age. Mark Hewitson is a Professor of German History and Politics at University College London, UK. His research interests lie principally in the intellectual, cultural, and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

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