The Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War.
Smith, Leonard V.
The Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages)
The Embattled Self -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Experience, Narrative, and Narrator in the Great War -- 1. Rites of Passage and the Initiation to Combat -- 2. The Mastery of Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing -- 3. The Genre of Consent -- 4. The Novel and the Search for Closure -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war.
9780801471216
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
Electronic books.
D640
940.4092/244
The Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages)
The Embattled Self -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Experience, Narrative, and Narrator in the Great War -- 1. Rites of Passage and the Initiation to Combat -- 2. The Mastery of Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing -- 3. The Genre of Consent -- 4. The Novel and the Search for Closure -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war.
9780801471216
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
Electronic books.
D640
940.4092/244