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Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521066875
ISBN13: 9780521066877
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 19 2008
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life. Through extensive archival and historical research, analyzing 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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