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An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various articles published in this issue of the periodical including one on strategies for teaching war literature, another on the creation of a historical memory of war and one on Levinas' philosophy of otherness.

This article focuses on one of the most pressing issues in Ukraine today, the ongoing war in the Donbass. Using selected examples of Ukrainian prose, the authors analyze the impact of the war on the fate of individuals and their families. However, the theme goes far beyond the literary text and touches on important social and political issues facing Ukraine today. The authors understand prose as one of the narratives of culture, which not only conceptualizes reality in a certain way, but also has a real impact on social attitudes. Contemporary Ukrainian prose about the war in the Donbass analyzes many stereotypes about the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine, shows them in their complicated family relationships, and also takes up one of the most universal literary motifs, namely the figure of the house in the face of a disruption of its everyday order. Characteristic of this prose is the individualized perspective, which aims not only to present events on a broad political level, but above all to draw attention to the impact of these events on the individual. Such an individualized perspective is an effective means of reaching the recipient and making him aware of the multidimensionality of the military conflict taking place before our eyes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how La ragazza con la Leica (The Girl with the Leica) (2017) by Helena Janeczek implicates photography in a continuous motion from production, human practice, and technical work to circulation and use of the photo-image where forms of untruths--fabrications, manipulation, deception, fiction, conjectures--disclose the authority and essence of an existence. Janeczek retells the story of Gerda Taro--the young German Jewish photographer who died in the Spanish Civil War, and who was Robert Capa's lover-- through a combination of narrative layers, games of mirrors, and coincidences. In La ragazza con la Leica, veracity and invention interlock on two main levels: on the level of the protagonists' personal and professional lives and on the level of the photographs in the text. In the book, writing and photography diachronically collaborate in the retrieval and construction of life and history through forms of un-truths--or other truths-- that reveal lost, forgotten, or unseen realities and, eventually, auto/biographical coincidences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the 1991 Gulf War had a deep transformative effect on Saudi Arabia. It aims to analyze the extent to which this war brought about major ideological changes to a society seemingly deemed unchangeable. Through the study of three Saudi novels which drew on this war as a source of creative and political inspiration, this study brings to life Saudi people's discussions, dilemmas, and reactions to the crumbling of the edifice of Arab unity and the emergence of "America" in its place as the "savior" from the evil of Saddam Hussein. We contend that despite resistance from various conservative elements of Saudi society, the winds of change brought by this war could not be resisted. The novels under study skillfully portray the events of this war not as battlefield accounts, but as accounts of a society wrestling with an irresistible wind of change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum--blogging, video-making, and online comics--and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how literature, which requires time for its "contents" to be distilled into a form removed from emotional immediacy, succeed not only in reflecting it but also in reflecting on it through various fictional(izing) prisms. I do so by comparing the methodologies adopted by Nada Awar Jarrar's A Good Land and Abbas El-Zein's Leave to Remain: A Memoir, both published in 2009, and by arguing that they share a sense of guilt and hence exhibit an ethical exigency by incorporating particular discourses to mediate and mediatize this war as crisis: the social/humanitarian in A Good Land and the visual/photographic in Leave to Remain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two debates arose in postwar Japan over the wartime responsibility of Japanese intellectuals. The first broke out in 1946 between two groups dominating the literary field at the time: the Orthodox-Marxist Shin Nihon bungakukai (New Japan Literary Association) and the "modernist" Kindai bungakukai (Modern Literature Association). The second arose in 1956 between members of the New Japan Literary Association and a group of New Left sympathisers organised around the journal Arechi (Waste Land). These two debates reflect the tensions affecting the literary field at the time and the "battle for symbolic capital". By examining the socio-political context surrounding the debates, this article highlights the different positions of each group and reveals the fragmentation and infighting that characterized the intellectual field of postwar Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature written during and after World War II expresses an important ecological shift in human perception towards the concern for the environment. Prior to that writers and poets expressed the celebrated role of nature often expressed in Romanticism. A shift in focus was noticed in the absurdist texts written, between the 1940s and 1950s. The writers belonging to the absurd school of thought hinted at an ecological crisis that people were dimly aware of but a serious concern that was slowly paving ground. Ecology outlines the fundamental principle that everything and everyone in this universe is connected. Based on this principle, the paper offers an exposure of how a new concern for the ecology emerged in the absurdist text of the 1940s and 1950s, portraying the troubled relationship between the ecology and man. The paper also traces the atrocity on animals and nature during the two World Wars and how the strangeness of the universe affected the ‘other than human’ forms on planet earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pat Barker's novel Double Vision (2003) addresses the ethics and aesthetics of witnessing and representing suffering in the context of recent hyper-mediated 'postmodern' wars (Bosnia, Afghanistan) and a global audience anaesthetized by spectacular excess. Her compelling exploration of the aesthetics of violence against issues of value, morality, shared humanity and truth, and the way she responds to them by weighing the potential of different art forms, provide a forceful poetic statement of the ethical possibilities of peace. As the protagonists confront the moral choices underlying the narrative, visual and ideological challenges of rendering the 'unsayable' and the 'unwatchable', relationality, partnership, emotional commitment, poetic truth and affect emerge as key steps towards viable responses to the experience of evil informing human life and art alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from an April 27-30, 2016 conference in Leipzig, Germany on history and mythology in comics and graphic novels. Topics of presentations delivered include depictions of ancient Greek mythology in the comics "Sokrates der Halbhund" and "Age of Bronze", minotaurs in the comic book series "Thor: God of Thunder", and the depiction of the Bosnian war in the graphic novel "Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival" by Joe Kubert.

An essay is presented which examined the literature about the war in Vietnam and the U.S. role. Topics discussed include Brenda Boyle's "The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature," Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young's "Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past" and James Fentress and Chris Wickham's "Social Memory: New Perspectives on the Past."

After providing a theoretical framework pertaining to the field of Reception of Classic in the first part of this essay (LAURIOLA, 2014) and after discussing some related issues from a pedagogical viewpoint, I introduced, as case study, works and initiatives by a psychiatrist (SHAY, 1991, 1994, 2002), an American director (DOERRIES, 2008), and two scholars (MEINECK, 2010a, b, 2012; TRITLE, 1998, 2000, 2010) who have been proposing a use of Classical Literature as a therapeutic and awareness-raising tool in response to the problems that modern wars have been causing. Veterans and their family, as well as the whole civic community, are the addressees of their work. What follows is a detailed analysis of those works with the intention both to determine whether they can be classified as work of reception - which, so far, has never been proposed - and to discuss the plausibility of this kind of reception, which also turns into social outreach, and how it can be proposed without risking to completely dismiss changes that have occurred in the vision of war, although we may agree that the sufferings of war did not change too much1. Like in the first part, the discussion will be also carried on within a pedagogical discourse. A personal note based on a personal experience will conclude the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article investigates the nationalist theme of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf's books during the First World War. The analysis focuses on Lagerlöf's 'En emigrant' (1914) and 'Lappland-Schonen' (1917) which signaled an interest in probing the validity of nationalist perspective through themes that evoked mobility and modern travel. The article traces the transnational migration of Lagerlöf's novels in Germany and Norway's literary markets.

The article sheds light on the origins of the military technical thinking in the military publishing of the Kingdom of Serbia with a view to marking a jubilee -- the sixtieth anniversary of the Military Technical Courier. „Vojin", the first military review, printed in the middle of 19th century as a private venture, covered a wide scope of military issues, among which a special place was given to „the science of weapons". No sooner had this review ceased to exist than The Headquarters of the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia started publishing a new military review, 'Ratnik", which, apart from the art of war and war literature, dealt with the science of weapons in order to inform officers about the latest achievements in military technology and to educate them as well. Serbian military thinking, including its technical aspect, did not fall behind modern trends in its European and world counterparts until 1914. The development of weaponry in Europe and the world was regularly covered on the pages of military reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a literary investigation of the 1948 war and the cultures of Zionist military formation. In this study, literature is understood as the record of war from the human perspective. Employing a conceptual distinction between the militia and the regular army, I trace the tension between the concurring cultures of war, allowing a conceptualization of the war of 1948 as three separate wars. The war begins with the cultural domination of the militia in 1947, which defines the culture and literature of 1948. As military power becomes more organized, the militias become a regular army, executing territorial expansion and the dispossession of the Palestinians. The figural character of revenge dominates the literature and is examined as underlying the dynamic of violence between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, Abba Kovner Holocaust survivor, Jewish partisan and poet--served as an educational officer in the Givati Brigade, writing more than 30 battle missives between June 1948 and May 1949. These missives, which were distributed among the soldiers, were a novelty that Kovner introduced to the IDF, and their poetic register, expressionist style, high pathos, and blunt and extremely violent rhetoric put them in stark contrast to all other IDF propaganda of the time. The missives were immensely popular among Givati Brigade soldiers but were met with harsh criticism from other quarters in the IDF and from prominent political leaders. Kovner, I argue, persisted in writing his missives in the face of this opposition because in his eyes they served a necessary and important function. Through his gory battle missives, Kovner sought to cleanse the fighters of the guilt and shame of bloodshed and to give words to an unspoken trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a critique of the play "Translations" by Brian Friel, with focus given to the story's similarity to that of the epic poem "Aeneid" by Latin poet Virgil. Friel's possible allusion to the Third Punic War is examined, with the English representing the invading Romans and the Irish the defeated Carthaginians. The main characters attempts to distance himself from Anglo-Irish conflict and anti-humanist viewpoints are detailed.

Although in the first decades of the 20th century the Albanian literature for children did not recognize any distinguished literary work, a series of liberation insurrections in north and south as well as the Declaration of Independence in 1912 show the great efforts of our Renaissance figures who were teachers, ideologists and active participants in the armed movement. All this big issues in the life of Albanian people as well as their freedom-loving spirit become the inspiration of many themes, details and motives in the Albanian literature for children. Some of well-known representatives of our national Renaissance such as: Çajupi, Asdreni, Fishta, Mjeda, Gurakuqi, Xanoni, J.Bageri etc., continued writing even during the first decades of the 20th century. In their poetic and literary writings, one could distinguish the romantic spirit of the exuberance of the love for the country, for the nature, for the universe, and sometimes there could be distinguished even a realistic tone which described the Albanian life. Throughout all this literary work, the love for the country was connected with the love for the language and with the great efforts that were made for founding Albanian schools, with the reverberation of the wars for freedom, with the description of nature, birds and flowers as well as with the inspiration taken from the fantastical and fabulous world of the world literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the relationship between Cold War military strategy and metafiction. According to the author, both contain a discourse of simulation and display a need to create parallel worlds and institutions. Examples are drawn from several works of literature including the book "The Nuclear Age" by Tim O'Brien and the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme. War-gaming and nuclear warfare are also discussed.

Colombia may be characterized as a society ruled over by "a routinization of war and oblivion". When memories about violent events succeed in articulate themselves and transcend the private space, they are not necessarily incorporated to national memory through "memory policies" in transitional processes. These memories are "deposited" rather than discussed. Testimonial literature is one of those "deposits". There are times when certain topics, witnesses, authors and narrative treatments attain an unexpected relevance. Such a relevance follows national factors, like the dynamics of conflict and society in Colombia and abroad, such as a "turn to past". When making a survey across the development of the testimonial genre from mid-20th century Violence up to our times, the gravitation of several cultures of memory is made evident in a society where oblivion appears to prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on presenting a more accurate portrait of Arkadii Gaidar (Arkady Petrovich Golikov), a Soviet writer of children's literature and promoter of the pro-Soviet "Timur movement." Gaidar's works focused upon the heroes of the Soviet Union and war (the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War), romanticizing the revolutionary struggle and promoting support for the Red Army and of soldiers' families. The story "Timur and his squad" (1940), propelled Gaidar to fame and sparked an altruistic mass movement among Young Pioneers and other children's organizations all over the Soviet Union. However, recent research reveals Gaidar was a murderer in the Russian Civil War, an alcoholic with mental issues, and that his movement was anything but voluntary and satisfying to members.

An essay is presented that considers the male body in literature from a historical perspective that begins in the 1640s and how domestic wars in England at that time impacted the national literature and created a number of instances where male characters are dismembered in some way. The ideas of literary critic Peter Brooks on how the bodies of men and women are represented in literature are considered. Other topics include the 1639-1659 Civil War in England, soldiers' manuals, and technological innovations in modern warfare, such as gunpowder.

This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of historical memory narratives in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. I argue that veterans, who had long established a ‘language community’ with a particular way to speak about the war, found it difficult to communicate with post-war audiences that did not share that experience. The paper analyses six categories of ‘memory writing’ that veterans used to engage with memory debates: post-war diaries, ‘testimonial literature’, articles and literary works, surveys and oral histories, memoirs, and paratext. This study thus proposes that veterans do not avoid discussion of war, but can only be ‘heard’ by members of their language community, or by a post-war society that is prepared to ‘listen’ to their message with little mediation. This is a direct consequence of their experience of the war, and how they crafted their language community at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Are the texts written by Josef Mühlberger dealing with war experience really texts about war? And if they are, to what extent are they a relevant testimony about war events? Scholars have rarely focused on these questions. Based on the analysis of the story The Partisan this paper shows that political content in Mühlberger's work is used to present problems and the camouflaged discussion of homosexual intimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses several subjects and approaches that are important in studying English language arts at the secondary level. It says that ecological literacy needs comprehension and understanding of human interactions with the environment. It states that reading green can help explore the role of literature in cultural responses through nature writing or environmental literature. Moreover, it suggests that teachers can teach the literature of war to students during English teaching.

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The article presents the author's insights on Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, who authored treatises about war. The author says that Clausewitz, who defined war as combat, fighting, and bloodshed, believes that the nature of war is timeless and immutable. He discusses how the Clausewitzian view of war have influenced military historians, theorists, soldiers, and marines including John A. Lynn, Victor Davis Hanson, and Martin van Creveld. He also argues that the nature of war is mutable.

The article discusses the impact of World War I on the publication of the German travel guides generally known as Baedekers, focusing particularly on the popularity of Baedekers' outside of Germany. Scottish brothers James and Findlay Muirhead published the English-language Baedekers prior to the war, but created their own guidebooks after the war to sell to customers living in Allied countries. The author also considers the physical effect of the war on Europe's landscapes and how changes to landmarks and destruction of property had an impact on the accuracy of guidebooks.

The article considers the history and poetry of American woman poet Ruth Bryant, written during the American Revolution. At the start of the Revolution in 1775, Bryant was fifteen years old and living in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Some of her poems written between 1775 and 1783 considered include "An Address to the Sons of Liberty Written in the Year 1775" and "Heedless Youth," which the author compares to the writings of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley and American author Mercy Otis Warren. Other subjects are American women authors at the end of the eighteenth century, an overview of Bryant's life during the Revolution, and the experiences of children during the Revolution.

This article investigates the relationship between civil war onset and state capacity through a focus on the role of primary commodities. This is accomplished by moving the focus of the civil war literature away from an almost exclusive concern with the incentives of rebels to a consideration of both rebels and rulers as revenue seeking predators. This predatory theory approach expects that higher levels of state capacity should deter civil war onset, while civil war onset should reduce state capacity. Further, natural resource rents are expected to enhance state capacity, rather than increase the likelihood of civil war onset. In order to deal with the endogeneity posed by including fiscal measures of state capacity in single equation models of civil war onset, this study employs a simultaneous equations framework. This framework allows us to capture the effects of civil war onset on state capacity and vice versa, as well as the effects of primary commodities on both endogenous covariates. The main findings from the statistical analyses include: state capacity does not affect civil war onset, but civil war onset reduces state capacity; and primary products directly affect only state capacity - they do not directly affect civil war onset, as found in previous contributions to the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of literature in curing neurasthenia, shell-shock, or posttraumatic stress disorder brought by wars to writers Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Andy Collins. It says that their psychological knowledge towards literary works somehow resolve the writer's mental and even emotional conflicts. It adds that writing war memoirs through their characters in fiction and poetry symbolize recovery.

The article critiques the essay "Conquering Cities and 'Conquering' Women" by Otto Rank. It grants that Rank gathers evidence in poetry of a link between sexual violence and state violence, but questions his leaps from the texts to the motives. It cites the essay's translator, David Winter, who notes that the metaphor of killing being like sex is different from saying that killing is sexual. It notes that the texts Rank assembles leave out the horrors of warfare and present only the pleasures. It notes modern war phrases such as hearts and minds and shock and awe, after which comes liberation with flowers being thrown at soldiers. The disastrous nature of such fantasies is noted.

The article focuses on the perspective of the actors of the classical literature "The Iliad" by Homer as part of the "Page and Stage" program held at the Los Angeles Central Public Library in California. It examines how the play affects the psychological aspects of the actors in understanding their own humanity. It highlights that the play gave actors as well the audiences the opportunity to reflect on the outcomes of war. Furthermore, the play made the audiences to mirror the corrupt practices of politicians and the international conflict of some countries particularly the war in Iraq.

The article focuses on the treatment of human body in the war literature of Soviet discourse in the 1930s and 1940s. It explores the war stories in Soviet, wherein the violence that surrounds the Soviet population was in a form of mass arrests and petitions for death penalties. It discusses official narratives of the 1930s and 1940s such as the "Pravda," which describes the disappearance of the bodies of tortured partisans in the World War II and provided a psychological release to the readers.

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The article discusses a September 2009 conference in Moscow, Russia, of the Rudimino Library for Foreign Literature and the State Library of Berlin, Germany, that produced a joint declaration on the sharing and publication of documents displaced and/or looted in World War II. Projects are described to make the documentation available virtually to both Russian and German scholars and to create joint exhibitions and research scholarship programs.

In this article I enquire into the conceptualisation and construction of the event, a topic much neglected in International Relations, but one which has become increasingly central to recent debates in continental philosophy. I juxtapose the fictional event depicted in Don DeLillo's brilliant novel, White Noise, with the non-fictional event of September 11. I suggest that apprehending any kind of socially or politically significant event, depends on narrative. To take the argument further, I argue that narrative is a crucial device by which we moderns (and postmoderns) actually experience such events and social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Greek historian Herodotus as commentator on international relations. It notes that the father of history has been underestimated as theorist of empire. It also presents Herodotus' representation of Persian power as means that empires project their own values and realities as universal. Moreover, it explores the reflections on empire in "Histories." It states that Herodotus explores the contribution of people to imperial expansion, empire's inclination to exude their values as universal, and the function played by historian relative to power.

This article aims to contribute to the literature on World War I in Palestine while studying the experience of the inhabitants of Jerusalem during the war. By focusing on a city and its residents, this article offers an analysis of the war from a dimension and lens yet to be explored in the history of Palestine. More specifically, the article will use relief networks in order to analyze not only the ways people experienced the war, but also as a way of exposing inter-communal dynamics between the different communities living in this mixed urban center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented regarding the postwar Japanese poetry of Ishigaki Rin. It explores the manifestation of women's physical and moral devastation during the postwar through the works of Ishigaki Rin. It notes that Ishikagi's ability to share and clarify their experiences during and after the war contributed to the development of Japanese women poets' roles. It also mentions that in the works of the Japanese poet, correlation of the socialization and abjection of the nation were described.

This article addresses the historical circumstances and literary consequences of Sholem-aleichem's departure from Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905. Sholem-aleichem's attempts to address revolutionary violence in writing—in feuilletons as well as in fictions such as "Khave," the fourth story in the Tevye cycle, and the 1907 novel called The Flood (Der mabl)—suggest that the events of 1905 represented a defining moment in the development of Sholem-aleichem's literary persona and in the evolution of his views of modern Jewish literature. Sholem-aleichem's sense of identification with Khave and Tamara, his "lost girls of the revolution," rebellious heroines with non-Jewish lovers, signified the writer's profound alienation from the Jewish political narrative of pogrom violence and his embrace of a deliberately provocative secular aesthetic, characteristic of some of his most famous post-revolutionary monologues and the popular novels Motl, the Cantor's Son, Wandering Stars, and The Bloody Hoax. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For just over a year in 1947-1948, Muriel Spark was editor of the prestigious but conservative "Poetry Review" in London, the journal of the Poetry Society. This made her the only female editor of a little magazine in Britain at the time, and one of the very few in the English-speaking world. Her editorship was short-lived, apparently because her preference for modernist poetry and her policy of publishing new writers offended many of the Society's members. In this paper I look more closely at Spark's innovative editorship and the reasons it came to a premature end, drawing on a reading of the magazine and also on the Spark archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo trata la literatura de guerra en la Unión Soviética. El autor nombra varios libros de este género, entre ellos "La Carretera de Volokolamsk" de Alexander Bek así como "Un hombre de verdad" y "Somos hombres soviéticos" de Boris Polevoy. Asevera que esta literatura, que se escribió a mediados del siglo XX, sirvió para recordar a los socialistas los orígenes nobles de se causa en un momento cuando estos origines se habían transformado en desorden, escasez y totalitarismo.

This article claims that all of the objectives put forth by the Egyptian revolutionary regime appeared in the leftist journal al-Fajr al-Jadid several years prior to the July 1952 revolution. The authors' central claim is also that the essentials of Nasserism including its basic tenets neutralism, pan-Arabism, and Arab socialism were clearly articulated in al-Fajr al-Jadid. Although there is no clear-cut evidence to show the existence of neither political nor ideological direct links between Nasser and the al-Fajr al-Jadid's group, this article clearly demonstrates the existence of remarkable ideological textual similarities between Nasserite's and al-Fajr al-Jadid's revolutionary ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay seeks to return the attention of researchers to a subject that has fallen out of favour in recent decades, especially since the retirement or death of the historians who first identified sources, asserted the significance of the topic, and opened the field to investigation. It presents a bibliographical review of the existing literature on the Irish doctors who served in the wars of independence in Gran Colombia, followed by a short biographical survey of some Irish doctors who have not been studied before, at least not in an English language publication such as this. The conclusion makes some general remarks about the role of Irish doctors in the wars of independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the role that LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of United States Civil War Confederate General George E. Pickett, played in promoting reconciliation between the North and the South after the Civil War. It discusses the positive reception she received after giving a speech in Boston, Massachusetts on Memorial Day in 1909, but notes that she had already established herself as playing an influential role in reuniting the country. It also examines how Pickett was able to improve her husband's legacy and secure her financial independence through her reconciliation efforts.