Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Graham Galer Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 272 ISBN: 9783838380520
Описание
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. These groups are referred to in the thesis as the ‘First Wave’ (during and soon after the war), the ‘Second Wave’ (around 1930) and the ‘Third Wave’ (post-1990). Within the First and Second Waves, particular attention is given to the writings of Siegfried Sassoon and Ernst Junger, and in the Third Wave, to those of Pat Barker. The...
