The art of survival : France and the Great War picaresque / Libby Murphy.
Author/creator |
Murphy, Libby |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2016] |
Description | xx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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Abstract | 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 filmmaker---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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2016935620 |
ISBN | 030021751X hardcover : acid-free paper |
ISBN | 9780300217513 hardcover : acid-free paper |
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