How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom - Couverture souple

Gill, D.C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415873118 ISBN 13 : 9780415873116

Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the colonists of the early seventeenth century, and ending with the diaries and letters from Iraqi war vets. The book tracks the effects of war in private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era allowing the writers to 'speak' to each other across time to reveal a profound commonality of cultural experience. Finally, interpreting the narratives by how the writers conveyed the content adds a richer layer of meaning through the lenses of psychology and literary criticism, providing a model for any society to examine itself through the medium of its members' informal writings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diana C. Gill is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415873118
• ISBN 13: 9780415873116
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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