“Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified”: Irish Literary Responses to the Great War : The War Writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty / / Robert Starr

• Autore: Starr Robert
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.99415
• Soggetto topico: Literature; Literatur; Irland; Ireland; World War I; 1. Weltkrieg; Great War
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Irish Soldier-Writers -- The Political Situation In Ireland -- Working-Class Identity -- Samuel Hynes's "Myth of The War" -- A Critical Overview Of The Irish Soldier-Writers -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter One: "Laying Open Wounds to the World: Patrick MacGill's Wartime Memoirs The Amateur Army, The Red Horizon and The Great Push" -- Introduction -- Private Patrick MacGill's Irish Identity -- The Similarity of Working Conditions in Peacetime and War -- The Similarity of Work in Peacetime and War -- The Role of Fighting For Patrick MacGill In Peace And War -- Writing As Work -- Private Patrick MacGill An Irish émigré -- Patrick MacGill and Roman Catholicism -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: "The Psychological Study of a Man on The Western Front": Patrick MacGill'sNovels The Brown Brethren and Fear! -- Introduction -- M.I.7b And Propaganda Writing -- Patrick MacGill's Narrators -- Ireland As Home -- Patrick MacGill's Portrayal Of Killing As Work -- Pan-National Camaraderie And Trauma -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Mud and Savagery in War: James Hanley's "The Alien Skull" and The German Prisoner -- Introduction -- James Hanley's Early Years -- Two Working-Class Soldiers -- James Hanley's Use Of Roman Catholic Imagery -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: "A Back like Jesus had": Suffering In James Hanley's Our Time is Gone -- Introduction -- James Hanley's Portrayal Of Work On The Home Front -- James Hanley's Portrayal of Work at Sea -- Roman Catholicism and the Conscientious Objector -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: "A Study of Evil": Liam O'Flaherty's Return of the Brute -- Introduction -- Liam O'Flaherty's Early Life -- Irish Landscape And The Battlefield -- Combat As Work -- Death In Combat -- Trauma In A Working-Class Soldier -- Conclusion. ; Chapter Six: "An Enemy of Your country": Liam O'Flaherty's The Black Soul -- Introduction -- Liam O'Flaherty And Rural Ireland -- Continuity: Peacetime Environment As Battlefield -- Wartime Trauma In Peacetime -- A Stranger In One's Own Country -- Irish Mythology -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Newspapers -- Unpublished Collections -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- Websites Visited.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers. Through discussions focusing upon class, camaraderie, violence, religion, trauma, and the body, this book considers these Irish soldiers within a cultural, social, and historical context. Central to this examination is the idea that the motives for enlistment and the experience of army labor and even combat was such that military service was perceived as work rather than a duty or vocation undertaken in support of any prevailing doctrines of patriotism or sacrifice. The men’s Catholicism also shaped their aesthetic and philosophical responses to the war, even while the war conversely troubled their faith or confirmed their religious scepticism. The war writing of these men is located within both an Irish and a pan-European literary working class tradition, thereby permitting the texts to be viewed within a wider context than literature of the First World War, and from a perspective that goes beyond Ireland and Britain. These characteristics shape a perspective on the conflict very different from that of the canonical officer-writers, men such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, or Edmund Blunden, whose work is considered alongside those of the three Irish soldier-writers.
• Titolo autorizzato: "Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified": Irish Literary Responses to the Great War
• ISBN: 9783838273310; 3838273311
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964806403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II