Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives explores the appearances and functions of humour and laughter in selected novels and short stories, based on autobiographical experiences, written by authors during the war and in the Weimar Era (1919-1933).This study focuses on popular and lesser-known works of German literature that played an important role in the socio-political life of the Weimar Republic: Storm of Steel by Ernst Juenger (1920), Advance from Mons 1914 by Walter Bloem (1916), The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (1927), and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929). The author shows that these works often share surprisingly similar narrative strategies in describing humorous experiences and soldier laughter to justify direct violence and oppressive power structures, regardless of the works’ ideological assignment and their popular and critical reception.This book also examines the parodic imitations of All Quiet on the Western Front, the German text All Quiet on the Trojan Front by Emil Marius Requark (1930) and the American film So Quiet on the Canine Front by Zion Myers and Jules White (1931) as significant polemical contributions that use humoristic strategies to stress or undermine elements of the original text.
Jakub Kazecki
Laughter in the Trenches [PDF ebook]
Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives
Laughter in the Trenches [PDF ebook]
Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives
Mua cuốn sách điện tử này và nhận thêm 1 cuốn MIỄN PHÍ!
định dạng PDF ● Trang 205 ● ISBN 9781443839495 ● Nhà xuất bản Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● Được phát hành 2012 ● Có thể tải xuống 6 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 2609984 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
Yêu cầu trình đọc ebook có khả năng DRM