This book is about the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 and some of the literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized.
"Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that clas…
"Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that clas…
En souvenir : Albert Herter's Le départ des Poilus, at Paris-Est / Mark Levitch -- The Canadians opposite lens : Augustus John's unfinished First World War Canadian masterpiece / Laura Brandon -- From propaganda to remembrance : Alfred Bastien's The panorama of the Yser Battle /…
The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous change in almost every aspect of political, social and cultural life of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. It was also an age of widespread experiments in literature and the media, of which the rich gen…