1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464970803321

Autore

Smith Leonard V. <1957->

Titolo

The embattled self : French soldiers' testimony of the Great War / / Leonard V. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8014-7120-6

1-322-52303-7

0-8014-7121-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

940.4092/244

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Experience, Narrative, and Narrator in the Great War -- 1. Rites of Passage and the Initiation to Combat -- 2. The Mastery of Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing -- 3. The Genre of Consent -- 4. The Novel and the Search for Closure -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. Eventually, a story revolving around tragedy and the soldier as victim came to dominate-even to silence-other types of accounts. In thematic chapters, Leonard V. Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of



trauma prevailed by the 1930's. Smith canvasses the vast literature of nonfictional and fictional testimony from French soldiers to understand how and why the "embattled self" changed over time. In the process, he undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period. The book is important reading not only for traditional historians of warfare but also for scholars in a variety of fields who think critically about trauma and the use of personal testimony in literary and historical studies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961365103321

Autore

Li Y. Robert

Titolo

Free radical biomedicine : principles, clinical correlations, and methodologies / / author, Y. Robert Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Saif Zone, Sharjah, U.A.E], : Bentham Books, [2012]

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

541.224

Soggetti

Free radicals (Chemistry) - Physiological effect

Pathology, Molecular

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

01 Title.pdf; 02 Cover page; 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website; 04 Table of Contents; 05 About the Book; 06 About the Author-corrected; 08 Preface; 10 Part I; 11 Chapter 1-corrected; 12 Chapter 2-corrected; 13 Chapter 3-corrected; 14 Part II; 15 Chapter 4-corrected; 16 Chapter 5-corrected; 17 Chapter 6-corrected; 18 Chapter 7-corrected; 19 Chapter 8-corrected; 20 Chapter 9-corrected; 21 Chapter 10-corrected; 22 Chapter 11-corrected; 23 Chapter 12-corrected; 24 Part III; 25 Chapter 13-corrected; 26 Chapter 14-corrected; 27 Chapter 15-corrected; 28 Index-corrected

Sommario/riassunto

This E-book covers both the fundamental principles and the recent advances in free radical biomedicine. It also provides a detailed coverage of the commonly used methods in free radical research with



detailed illustrations.