1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462832403321

Autore

Scates Bruce

Titolo

Anzac journeys : returning to the battlefields of World War II / / Bruce Scates ; with Alexandra McCosker [and three others] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-27319-6

1-107-27394-3

1-107-27720-5

1-107-27517-2

1-139-19642-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.540994

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Australia

World War, 1939-1945 - Battlefields - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MONEY, MEASUREMENT AND TERMINOLOGY; Money; Measurement; Terminology; INTRODUCTION; 'This great sorrow'; PART 1 CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES; CHAPTER ONE 'IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT HAS BECOME OF HIM': The loss of Australia's prisoners of war; CHAPTER 2 WITNESS TO WAR: The first journeys; RECOVERY AND RETRIBUTION: WILLIAM STICPEWICH INVESTIGATES; RECOVERY AND REDEMPTION: A CHAPLAIN'S JOURNEY; RE-ENACTMENTS, REIMAGINING: SIMPSON'S DOCUMENTARY DRAMA; CHAPTER 3 BRING UP THE BODIES: Commemorating our war dead

CHAPTER 4 UNSPEAKABLE HISTORIES: From Singapore to Hellfire PassMEMORY TRACES; COMPOSING MEMORY; CONTESTED GROUND; GROUNDING MEMORY; CHAPTER 5 THE DEATH MARCH: Journeys back to Sandakan; CONNECTING TO PLACE; DISRUPTED JOURNEYS; PART 2 DESERT AND ISLAND; CHAPTER SIX DEATH IN THE DESERT: North Africa; WAR IN THE DESERT; A SELECT FEW; CHAPTER SEVEN A POST-WA R DREAM: Greece and Crete; DESCENDANTS' JOURNEYS; STUDENT



PILGRIMAGES; PART 3 AIR AND SEA; CHAPTER EIGHT SEEKING THE UNKNOWN: Remembering Sydney; THE SINKING OF SYDNEY; WAYS OF REMEMBERING; FINDING THE WRECK

CHAPTER NINE JOURNEYS INTO NIGHT: Bomber CommandOPS: BOMBER COMMAND'S MISION; 'FALLEN AIRMEN': THE FIRST COMMEMORATIONS; RECOVERING MEMORY: LOCAL COMMEMORATIONS; TOWARDS A NATIONAL MEMORIAL; 'FINDING MY FATHER': PILGRIMAGES WITH BOMBER COMMAND; PART 4 AUSTRALIA'S FRONT LINE; CHAPTER TEN WALKING THE TRAIL: Kokoda; THE PILGRIMS' WAY: EARLY JOURNEYS; 'WALKING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS': EXPERIENCING KOKODA; JOURNEYS 'HOME'; CHAPTER ELEVEN A CITY AT WAR: Darwin; CONCLUSION; 'A great consolation?'; NOTES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 THE LOSS OF AUSTRALIA'S PRISONERS OF WAR; CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST JOURNEYS

CHAPTER 3 COMMEMORATING OUR WAR DEADCHAPTER 4 FROM SINGAPORE TO HELLFIRE PASS; CHAPTER 5 JOURNEYS BACK TO SANDAKAN; CHAPTER 6 NORTH AFRICA; CHAPTER 7 GREECE AND CRETE; CHAPTER 8 REMEMBERING SYDNEY; CHAPTER 9 BOMBER COMMAND; CHAPTER 10 KOKODA; CHAPTER 11 DARWIN; CONCLUSION; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from the jungles of New Guinea and South-East Asia to the mountains of Greece and the deserts of North Africa. They travel in search of the stories of lost loved ones, to mourn the dead and to come to grips with the past. With characteristic empathy, Bruce Scates charts the history of pilgrimages to Crete, Kokoda, Sandakan and Hellfire Pass. He explores the emotional resonance that these sites have for those who served and those who remember. Based on surveys, interviews, extensive fieldwork and archival research, Anzac Journeys offers insights into the culture of loss and commemoration and the hunger for meaning so pivotal to the experience of pilgrimage. Richly illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs from the 1940s to today, Anzac Journeys makes an important and moving contribution to Australian military history.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003443359707536

Titolo

Les chansons attribuées a Guiot de Dijon et Jocelin / éditées par Elisabeth Nissen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Champion, 1928

Descrizione fisica

XV, 56 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Les classiques français du Moyen Age

Altri autori (Persone)

Guiot : de Dijon

Nissen, Elisabethauthor

Jocelin : de Dijon

Disciplina

841.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese (ca. 842-1400)

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788582703321

Autore

Olwell Victoria

Titolo

The genius of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : fictions of gender and citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945 / / Victoria Olwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-89738-5

0-8122-0497-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4093522

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women in public life - United States - History

Women and democracy - United States - History

Genius

Genius in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Work of Genius -- Chapter 1. "It Spoke Itself ": Genius, Political Speech, and Louisa May Alcott's Work -- Chapter 2. Genius and the Demise of Radical Publics in Henry James's The Bostonians -- Chapter 3. Trilby: Double Personality, Intellectual Property, and Mass Genius -- Chapter 4. Mary Hunter Austin: Genius, Variation, and the Identity Politics of Innovation -- Chapter 5. Imitation as Circulation: Racial Genius and the Problem of National Culture in Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion -- Coda: Gertrude Stein in Occupied France -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints on political life. The connections between genius, gender, and citizenship were important not only to contests over such practical goals as women's suffrage but also to those over national membership, cultural identity, and means of political transformation more generally. In The Genius of Democracy Victoria Olwell uncovers the political uses of genius, challenging our dominant narratives of gendered citizenship. She shows how American fiction catalyzed political models of female genius, especially in the work of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein. From an American Romanticism that saw genius as the ability to mediate individual desire and collective purpose to later scientific paradigms that understood it as a pathological individual deviation that nevertheless produced cultural progress, ideas of genius provided a rich language for contests over women's citizenship. Feminist narratives of female genius projected desires for a modern public life open to new participants and new kinds of collaboration, even as philosophical and scientific ideas of intelligence and creativity could often disclose troubling and more regressive dimensions. Elucidating how ideas of genius facilitated debates about political agency, gendered identity, the nature of consciousness, intellectual property, race, and national culture, Olwell reveals oppositional ways of imagining women's citizenship, ways that were critical of the conceptual limits of American democracy as usual.