Name: The art of Survival: France and the Great war Picaresque
SKU: 49235321
Author: Murphy Libby
ISBN: 9780300217513

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The art of Survival: France and the Great war Picaresque

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Libro Físico

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Yale University Press

Autor

Murphy Libby

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Inglés

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Tapa Dura

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9780300217513

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Francia
Historia de europa

The art of Survival: France and the Great war Picaresque

Murphy Libby (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Dura

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An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy investigates how infantrymen and civilians attempted to make sense of the war while it was still in progress by reviving the picaresque, a literary mode in which unheroic protagonists are forced to fend for themselves in a chaotic and hostile world. By examining works by French and European novelists, journalists, graphic artists, cultural critics, and filmmakers--including Charlie Chaplin--Libby Murphy shows how the rich tradition of the European picaresque was uniquely appropriate for expressing anxieties provoked by modern, industrialized warfare.