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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]

Post-1918 literature has played a major part in determining the way the First World War has been remembered in the British national consciousness. The post-war literary boom in the late 1920s and early 1930s has shaped many impressions of the war, allowing images of the Western Front to dominate memory. This article, however, explores alternative ways that post-war literature has commemorated the war, beginning with the Armistice, to track the significance of memory in Britain in the immediate post-war decades. My concern here is the focus on memory in non-war fiction and some memoir: those stories written in the inter-war decades that do not look backwards, but instead deal with the aftermath, By considering the fiction of writers such as Irene Rathbone, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy L. Sayers and Winifred Holtby as they engage with the complex issues surrounding how to remember, I will examine whether these writers, as women, endorsed the culture of disillusionment or offered alternative modes of remembrance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the 1930s, a generation of British writers embraced the cinema at the same time as they committed themselves to left-wing politics. Stephen Spender later described radical German and Russian cinema as conveying ‘a message of hope like an answer to The Waste Land’. This article argues that cinema entered literature not just as a set of techniques, but as a mode of vision, and that this vision quickly became less hopeful. Having accepted the cinematic quality of their surroundings, several 1930s writers figured consciousness itself as a camera or projector. These narratives take the cinematic as read and investigate the experience of living in a world whose subjects are absent actors mediated by the cinema screen. In this context, the cinema becomes a vehicle not so much for a Benjaminian politicisation of aesthetics as for a more reactionary political disengagement. Here this is explored through a discussion of texts by Edward Upward and Christopher Isherwood and then through an analysis of the cinematic literature of the Spanish Civil War. The article ends with an analysis of Susan Sontag's critique of Baudrillard's ‘hyerperreal’, suggesting that this debate was prefigured in the 1930s. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article examines the writings of medical personnel from the First World War, and their participation as witnesses and healers of disease. It cites the nervous breakdowns prevalent in nurses on active service during the time. It analyzes the traumatic experiences of personnel through psychiatric and psychological approaches. It presents definitions for experiences presented in narratives of the personnel's emotional responses to war events.

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]

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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]

A consideration of ancient and recent war literature can be useful in discussion of military ethics. Twentieth-century war literature reveals its origins in ancient literature by creating modern versions of the Homeric male. The writings of James Jones, Evelyn Waugh, and Kurt Vonnegut about the soldier's experience in World War II depict efforts to find ethical fulfillment in soldiering that are respectively reminiscent of Achilles, Agamemnon, and Ulysses: the warrior, the gentleman, and the storyteller. These figures illustrate the dependency of ethics and virtue on social context and on creative, self-narrative, and discursive language. [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]

Much of the current research on memoria convincingly demonstrates the vital and quasi-anthropological contribution of literature to the development of collective symbolism and its wavering between warning testimony and forgetting. Independently, cognitive linguistics increasingly turns its attention to metonymy as a central and very productive thought and language category, without, however, giving much thought to the question of the markedness and the narrative function of this rhetorical form. Our paper aims to circumscribe metonymy as a textual process that affects the literary staging of memory. How does metonymy relate to other forms of figuralization in this respect? To what extent does metonymy display an awareness of narrativity, and how does this call to the fore an ethical, self-reflexive sensibility towards the distribution of power in language, especially in view of the fact that metonymy is commonly associated with violent, stigmatizing, "excitable speech" (Judith Butler)? Our hypotheses concerning the narrative function of metonymy will be illustrated by means of examples taken from post-war literature, to wit Günter Grass' Die Blechtrommel and Im Krebsgang, as well as Elfriede Jelinek's Die Liebhaberinnen, Die Kinder der Toten and Gier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" and T. S. Eliot's "East Coker" in relation to the war of the 1930's. It mentions that the period saw Great Britain's future as uncertain in the attacks of German armies. The authors wrote works seeking cultural continuity amidst the war. The article discusses the works of literature and describes the correspondence between authors.

The article focuses on the private SNAFU films Dr. Seuss, Munro leaf, P.D. Eastman from 1943-46. The experiences of Theodor Seuss Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf of writing the 28 SNAFU episodes are investigated. SNAFU films are propaganda cartoons in children's books created between 1943 and 1946. The cartoons for US soldiers and their children provided opportunity how wartime ideologies emerge in American children's literature. The differences between the children's books and the SNAFU cartoons is examined on how military educational culture influenced civilian educational culture.

This article further explores the treatment of war in literature for young readers, the subject of Children at War by Kate Agnew and Geoff Fox (2001, 2005). Here, the focus is on material published for children in novels, poems, picturebooks and storypapers before, during and after the Great War of 1914–18. There is a threefold value in retrieving such material. First, a unique light is thrown upon Britain's sense of identity at the time. Second, the texts provide a corrective to a view of the war that might well be held by modern-day school students familiar with the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Finally, the material may aid an understanding of British attitudes towards Europe prevalent for many years after the cessation of hostilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mid-1950s literary debut of Ishihara Shintaro with his novel Season of the Sun ( Taiyo no Kisetsu ) marked a new interaction between Japanese mass culture and the historically dominant literary establishment. By skilfully mobilizing the emerging post-Occupation discourses of post-war film, literature, criticism and Cold War capitalist consumerism, Ishihara succeeded in creating a new emphasis on a youth culture divorced from the war responsibility debate. Ishihara's subsequent political career and his prominence as neo-conservative governor of Tokyo at the turn of the century also have their roots in his early literary activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a criticism on the trilogy novels by Pat Barker which deal about modern warfare. One challenge in writing about modern warfare is the sheer impossibility of adequately representing the dead and injured. An estimated 10 million men died in World War I and another 20 million were wounded; but statistics are abstractions, and the massive numbers of dead and injured soldiers overwhelm the imagination, making them impossible to grasp. Thus, novels about modern warfare must confront the difficult problem of how to represent and conceptualize it. If, on the one hand, the sheer scope of the losses is described, readers will find themselves unable to grasp the meaning of such huge numbers or to translate them into human terms. On the other hand, if the experience is individualized, the personal impact may be emphasized although the larger significance of the conflict will be lost. Pat Barker's World War I trilogy -- Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993), and the Booker Award-winning The Ghost Road (1995) -- takes up the challenge of embodying the dead and wounded in unique ways. The trilogy has been recognized as an important contribution to the literature of war, particularly in its recovery of Dr. W. H. R. Rivers's work.

Discusses the effect of war on bodies of writing and literature. Literary pieces that challenge the canonical narratives of war; Comparison of the processes of censorship and canonization during and after the Second World War in both Japan and the United States; Assessment of the literary casualties of the World War II period; Critical gap between discussions of wartime and postwar Japanese literature; Factors that create the analogous divide between approaches that focus either solely on the canon or on the margin in the wider field of cultural studies.

This paper examines a variety of literature written by German women during or shortly after World War I. In doing so, the paper considers some of the difficulties—linguistic, ideological, and social, for instance—which women writers had to contend with when writing about something traditionally perceived as male. In addition, the paper explores the ways in which German women's literature of World War I provides insight into a crisis in both male and female subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the vexed history of the wartime poem card. Issuance of the poems found on U.S. World War II poem covers by government agencies and the military services; Suggestion that militant, pro-war poems began to disappear once the war settled into a futile stalemate of opposing trench systems punctuated by mass slaughter every time one side or the other attempted to break through its enemy's lines; Consideration of the poem card as the most unrecognized material form of poetry production and distribution.

Focuses on writing about war for children. Factors that need to be considered in writing about war; Examination of children's literature written during wartime; Trends in writing books about war.

From the viewpoint of twenty-first-century audiences it seems paradoxical that battle scenes are a recurrent feature of Elizabethan plays, since such demanding scenes could not be fully rendered on stage given physical limitations imposed by indoor and outdoor acting venues-of the late sixteenth century. Many anonymous messengers and heralds populating Elizabethan drama carried out the vital task of summarizing events that could not be presented on stage. However, the nonrealistic nature of battles becomes less surprising when we consider the aural and symbolic dimensions which were an integral part of the experience of theatergoing in early modern Great Britain.

Focuses on the Vietnam War fiction and its relationship with postmodern literature. Narrative paradigm for the authorship of experiences in the Vietnam War; Significance of the Vietnam War as a cause of political tumult of the 1960s; Historical contingencies that influenced the rise of postmodernism.

The First and Second World Wars, as well as other global conflicts, have merited reflection on the literature they occasioned. Yet the Cold War seems to have avoided such a literary retrospective. Starting with films in 2001 which evoked Cold War controversies, a first attempt is made here to sketch an anthology of Cold War literature, including novels, poetry, cinema, and other forms of popular culture. A thematic outline of the Book of the Cold War, which covers five distinct topics, is proposed: nuclear war; wars of the third world; belief and betrayal; the spy novel; and the end of cold war. This literary overview is suggestive of how substantial and varied the literary reflection on the Cold War has been, how this diversity says something about the complex levels of the Cold War itself, and finally, how culture not only reflected but was a factor in the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the literature of U.S.-Mexican war. Author George Lippard's two war novels are only part of a huge body of printed texts and visual images that circulated widely during the years of the US-Mexican War. The print revolution of the late 1830s and 1840s, which made it possible to reproduce and distribute newspapers and books at cheaper prices and in larger quantities than ever before, directly preceded the war. During the late 1840s, a remarkable series of stories and novels were quickly produced to capitalize on popular interest in events in Mexico.

Focuses on the works and contributions of Vasilii Grossman as a writer in the field of Soviet war literature. Significance of his wartime journalism; Writings of Grossman which stand out among the voluminous literature of the war; Description of the circumstances surrounding Grossman's attempts to publish Zhizn' i sud' ba in the Soviet Union.

The post-war economics literature has been characterized by a marked trend toward co-authored articles. Economics is not the only discipline characterized by increasing co-authorship. This study investigates the question of why authors have been collaborating in increasing numbers over recent decades. The increasing specialization of the profession along with changes in the institutional incentives for publication are likely to be major factors explaining the trend toward co-authorship. The authors emphasis is placed on advancing and testing specific hypotheses regarding the underlying reasons for the trend in co-authorship. In the next section the author develops a simple model of co-authorship where researcher utility is a function of the number of articles produced. In sections 2 and 3 the model is applied to the post-war experience in both a time series and cross-section framework. The final section offers conclusions and a summary of our findings. Considering the continuing expansion of knowledge in economics, it is reasonable to expect the co-authorship trend to extend into the future.

Examines Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque in an effort to elucidate the humorous vitality of Jonathan Swift's treatment of the subject of war in "Gulliver's Travels". Views on the dimensions of war; Ways in which Swift's language enacts carnivalesque or saturnalian features.

Examines author Hugh MacDiarmid's writings on his war experiences. Description of the French landscape in the aftermath of battle in the prose sketch "Casualties"; MacDiarmid's attitude to the war; MacDiarmid's immersion into the fact and fiction of war.

Examines author David Jones' book "In Parenthesis". Aesthetic principles formulated by Jones for his work; Emphasis of "In Parenthesis" as a literature; Jones' presentation of the horrors of World War I; Creation of "In Parenthesis" as a literary work of art.

The present study represents an objective assessment of the growth in trauma literature, and of the thematic trends which have been part of its historical evolution. For these purposes a systematic, manual search of Psychological Abstracts from 1970 to 1990 was conducted to identify literature on trauma-related topics. Fifteen hundred and ninety-six (1596) citations between 1970–1990 were identified, and a trend showing increasing numbers of trauma publications was in evidence. This increase was most apparent in literature involving war- and sexual abuse-related traumatization, but not in publications about natural and technological disaster. These findings reflect a dynamic and growing field, and will provide an important benchmark for assessing the changing status of the PTSD literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses English literature before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Consciousness of the imaginative writers regarding social condition in England; Works of purely literary violence; Fear of a future war and possible invasion of England by many writers.

Focuses on novel about war. Literary form and pattern; Presentation of the story; Intention of the author.

This article examines the importance of literature in school instruction in the U.S. With the imminence of war as an added force in 1940, the Committee on International Relations of the National Council of Teachers and English explored the possibilities of literature as a means of sustaining peace, brotherhood, and democracy. Faced with the reality of war two years later, the Basic Aims Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English defined the purposes that literature should serve in time of conflict by way of enriching personal living, deepening understanding of social relationships, illuminating the contemporary scene, developing insight into the American attitude of minds and conditions of life, and promoting national unity.

Focuses on the Paraguayan contributions to the literature of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. Origins of the territorial dispute that led to the Chaco War; Storyline of the novel 'Ocho Hombres,' by José S. Villarejo; Review of the novel 'Cruces de quebracho,' by Arnaldo Valdovinos; Contributions of the poem collection 'Estampas de la guerra,' by Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá.