Myths of the Western Front
How European literature has created myths by which the First World War is remembered
This thesis is an exploratory essay into ways in which a number of myths have emerged from the experience of those who fought on the Western Front in 1914-1918. Three principal myths are identified, and are termed Loss, Anger and Futility (LAF), Renewal through Sacrifice (RTS) and Reconciliation and Regeneration (RR). The tools used to analyse the expression of the myths through literature are 'mythic consciousness', and myth as derived from 'remembered communitas', or from the 'retrospective transfiguration of a sacrificial crisis'. These tools are employed to analyse three groups of writings inspired by the experience of the Western Front…
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- ISBN: 978-3-8383-8052-0
- EAN: 9783838380520
- Produktnummer: 37658693
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.6 cm 423 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 423
Über den Autor
After a career in international industry, Graham Galer took a PhD in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. His first degree was from Cambridge University. Having lived as a child through the Second World War, he has a long-standing interest in the ways in which Europeans remember the wars of the 20th century.
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