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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"First World War Poetry"”.
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
The First World War had a profound effect on international literature. However, its poetic canon has remained stubbornly British. American war poetry has been excluded from the canon owing in part to vastly different war experiences. American forces did not begin to arrive in Europe until nearly …
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‘History Engraved on his Shoulder’: A Comparative Study of the Influence of British First World War Poetry on Post 1980 Iraqi War Poetry "embargoed indefinitely"
Abstract This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
… through a psychoanalytic perspective in the First World War poetry of Siegfried Sassoon. I suggest that Sassoon, through his poetry, critiques the idea of a heteronormative, hypermasculinity that was propagated throughout the period of WW1. The pressure to perform in the hypermasculine area …
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Constructing Landscapes: Towards a Hybrid Tonality
… Winter Pass is a song cycle on texts by Edward Thomas, while In Memoriam comprises five settings of different war poets, namely, A. E. Housman, Edward Thomas, Leslie Coulson, Richard Aldington, and Willoughby Weaving. Marvellous Sweet Music sets texts from The Tempest, by William …