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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"shell-shock"”.
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"
… first collected under the terse assignation of "shell-shock," linking the range of maladies to the psychological influence of heavy artillery as well as referring tacitly to ontological theories of physical lesions in cerebral tissue. Such diagnostic projections were assisted by patients who, …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
… assesses potential links between masculinity and shell shock, explored 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 …
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'The report on her transfer was shell shock': a study of the psychological disorders of nurses and female Voluntary Aid Detachments who served alongside the British and Allied Expeditionary Forces during the First World War, 1914-1918
Shell Shock, described as the ‘emblematic psychiatric disorder’ of the First World War has long been synonymous with its soldiers. Its association with close proximity to exploding shells and thus the front lines, leading to the various symptoms of ‘shock’, has both facilitated and ensured its …
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The Australian experience of psychological casualties in war, 1915-1939
… explores the Australian experience of shell shock from 1915 until 1939. This thesis encompasses the impact of war-induced psychological disorder on soldiers at the front and in the hospital and rehabilitative systems both during and after the war. It also assesses the effect of this …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… studies: railway spine in Victorian England, shell shock in World War I, post-Vietnam syndrome in the 1970s, and PTSD in 1980. After introducing the project in the first chapter, Chapter 2 examines how British legal courts in the late ninteenth century called upon physicians to determine …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… a society. Chapter 3, “Getting the Right Idea: Shell Shock, Contagion, and Control,” examines aesthetic and cultural reactions to the psychological treatment of soldiers, focusing particularly on the gender crisis “shell shock” revealed. The chapter is underwritten by an analysis of interwar …
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In the shadow of war: continuities and discontinuities in the construction of the masculine identities of British soldiers, 1914-1924
… The subject of the second chapter is shell shock. The outbreak of shell shock among the troops aroused anxieties about masculinity. The competing versions of masculinities which emerged in military and medical discourses is examined. Returning to individual memoirs, the chapter …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
… is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of black masculinity. The doubts raised by male hysteria intersected with renewed fears of racial degeneration with implications for both military undertakings and Imperial hegemony. These twin anxieties …
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"Where Youth and Laughter Go:" Trench Warfare from petersburg to the Western Front
The study of soldier’s experience is important to understanding the effect that wars have on society. In the latter part of the 19th century the experience of warfare changed due to advances in weapons technology. The defensive tactic of trench warfare gained new importance. The most prolific use …
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Changing Gender Roles During the Great War in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier
The analysis of the changing nature of gender roles and duties after the Great War represented in Pat Barker's and Rebecca West's novels
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
My dissertation “Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie” shows how the texts produced by Detection Club members Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie challenge assumptions about the value and …
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: Using the Power of Narrative to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
Abstract Soldiers traumatized by war often experience debilitating effects of invisible wounds such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An obstacle to recovery from PTSD for male soldiers can be an inability to share their stories. This obstacle is exacerbated by the construct of American …
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Post traumatic story disorder: using the power of narrative to heal the invisible wounds of war
Abstract Soldiers traumatized by war often experience debilitating effects of invisible wounds such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An obstacle to recovery from PTSD for male soldiers can be an inability to share their stories. This obstacle is exacerbated by the construct of American …