Recherches, 2023 The present article analyses the ways in which First World War experiences shaped the narrative techniques used by novellists on the romanian literary scene of the 1920’s, influencing new developments.
Lăcrămioara Petrescu
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SEEU Review, 2019 The article aims at addressing the question of representations of World War Two in Croatian and Serbian literature that were subversive in the sense that they queried the legend not simply by rejecting communism and affirming nationalism, but by ...
Czerwiński Maciej
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Translating the Enemy in the ‘Terp’: Three Representations in Contemporary Afghan War Fiction
Humanities, 2019 This essay examines the ambivalent relationships between American soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and their unit interpreters in recent fictional works by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Luke Mogelson, and Will Mackin.
Steven K. Johnson
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Not all gallantry, gongs and glory: wartime in popular american novels
Rozprawy Społeczne, 2023 This article discusses perceptions of World War II in modern American literature. Authors acknowledge novels inspired by their authors’ combat, and discuss visions of war, aims of wartime literature and major literary archetypes.
Adrianna Białecka, Barbara Ewa Struk
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External Intervention and the Duration of Civil Wars [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examines the effect of external intervention on civil war duration from the years 1946-2002. Based on the logic that intervention causes a distortion of the bargaining process in civil wars, it is hypothesized that intervention leads to ...
Mouritsen, Sofia E.
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‚During a period of total despair, I picked up a pen‛: Exploring Trauma, Writing and Healing in A Soldier’s Song, Ken Lukowiak’s Falklands War Recollections [PDF]
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2020 This paper aims to explore the connections between textual expression and traumatic recollection in Ken Lukowiak’s Falklands War memoirs, A Soldier’s Song (1993). Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment of the British
Andrea Roxana Bellot
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Writing war, writing memory: the representation of the recent past and the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Bosnian prose [PDF]
, 2010 Focusing on the work of Miljenko Jergović, Nenad Veličković, Alma Lazarevska, and Saša Stanišić, this paper examines how the representation of the recent past intertwines with the construction of collective memory in contemporary Bosnian prose.
Vervaet, Stijn
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Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory : new directions of literary and media memory studies [PDF]
, 2011 This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of "traumatic pasts", i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to ...
Erll, Astrid
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Między totalizmem a jednostkowością. Literatura wobec wojny (z Ukrainą w tle)
Jednak Książki, 2023 The article discusses various forms and aspects of the conceptualization of war as a tension between the individual and the total. The starting point is the philosophical reflection of B. Miciński, E. Levinas and G.W.
Maciej Michalski
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Levinas’ notion of neighbor as an approach to understand Pío Baroja, otherness and modern Spain. [PDF]
, 2020 The Cold War era touched Spain only subtly. Because of the geopolitical situation of Europe during the second half of the 20th century, Spain remained almost isolated from macro politics, attempting impossible alliances with Italian and German fascism ...
Arranz, Iker
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