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British and American literary journalism during the First World War. Alternative approaches to the literature of the First World War. Memory and representation of 20th century conflict.
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Based on the concept of ‘interpretive community’, it is possible to trace how humans can become interpreters (or decoders) of their own reality through, say, written excerpts and architectural works. This paper is intended, therefore, to report on an interpretive-community workshop where students of three different disciplines (namely, Architecture...
Based on the concept of ‘interpretive community’, it is possible to trace how humans can become interpreters (or decoders) of their own reality through, say, written excerpts and architectural works. This chapter is intended, therefore, to report on an interpretive-community workshop where students of three different disciplines (namely, Architectu...
Digital resources have been more widely used in the university classroom since the Spring semester of 2020, but the reality is that Covid-19 simply accelerated an already leading tendency in education. The pedagogical potential of teaching with digital resources, editions and collections remains largely unexplored in the Spanish university context,...
Esta comunicación resume una experiencia educativa del primer cuatrimestre del curso 2020-2021 orientada a encontrar argumentos de diseño para arquitecturas que tienen que ver con cuidados de salud, crianza y naturaleza iniciados desde relatos literarios sobre epidemias históricas o aislamientos voluntarios, pensados medidas covid-19 lo mejor que s...
Roig-Vila, Rosabel (coord.) | Antolí Martínez, Jordi M. (ed.) | Diez Ros, Rocío (ed.) | Pellín Buades, Neus (ed.)
When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One of these organisations was the group of writers known as “the Vigilantes.” This essay examines Fifes and Drums:...
This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors’ experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First World War was portrayed in a series of works of literary journalism at different stages of the conflict, from the s...
This chapter looks at previous research on the field of literature and journalism during the First World War and explains the need for this book as well as its structure. It explores why theories of liminality, as developed by Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, and Eric Leed, are a useful conceptual tool for looking at British and American literary...
In this chapter the spotlight is directed towards the representation of the Battle of the Somme by three officially accredited British journalists. The journalists’ accounts of the battle have been traditionally dismissed as the epitome of servile war propaganda. This chapter challenges this standpoint and examines how the texts of William Beach Th...
This chapter focuses on the first stage of the rite of passage—separation—and compares the early-war texts of two British reporters, Harold Ashton and Philip Gibbs, and two American journalists, Richard Harding Davis and Alexander Powell. I examine their 1914 and 1915 war books to explain how war correspondents experienced, at the beginning of the...
This chapter focuses on the work of three American reporters, Irvin S. Cobb, Floyd Gibbons, and Will Irwin, and discusses how these authors portrayed the American entry to the war. The reporters’ individual journeys to the front mirror a collective experience of war that may be interpreted as a national rite of passage. The three authors adapted th...
This chapter examines the reporters’ responses to the war once the conflict ended. It questions to what extent the third stage of the rite of passage—incorporation—affected the authors’ view of the war after the Armistice. Looking at the texts published by some of the authors discussed in the previous chapters, such as Edith Wharton, Phillip Gibbs,...
This chapter discusses the liminal experience in the war zone of Arnold Bennett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Roberts Rinehart, May Sinclair, and Edith Wharton between late 1914 and the months before the Battle of the Somme. I focus on how the authors dealt with the complexities of their liminal experience, and how—wherever possibl...
Esta Red abordó la posibilidad de implantar el modelo de clase invertida ("flipped classroom") en la asignatura de "Literatura norteamericana hasta fines del siglo XIX" del tercer curso del Grado en Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad de Alicante. Se trata de un modelo pedagógico alejado de la tradicional clase magistral, centrado en el desarrollo...
This essay focuses on May Sinclair's A Journal of Impressions of Belgium (1915, London: MacMillan), Mary Roberts Rinehart's Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915, New York: George Doran Company) and Edith Wharton's Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (2010, London: Hesperus Press Limited), and examines how these write...
Este articulo examina el juego literario entre realidad y ficcion que se desarrolla en The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1917) . El libro narra la labor desarrollada por Elsie Knocker y Mairi Chisholm, “las mujeres de Pervyse”, en un hospital de campana durante los primeros meses de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Jugando con los limites entre la escritura d...