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Touch Intimacy WWI Literature - Couverture souple

Das, Santanu

 
9780521066877: Touch Intimacy WWI Literature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521066875 ISBN 13 : 9780521066877
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.

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À propos de l'auteur

Santanu Das is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521066875
ISBN 13 
9780521066877
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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