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Author:   Xavier Pla ,  Francesc Montero ,  Maximiliano Fuentes
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   72
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9783034319508

ISBN 10:   3034319509
Pages:   441
Publication Date:   24 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Xavier Pla/Maximiliano Fuentes Codera/Francesc Montero: Introduction – José Álvarez Junco: Europe before and after the Great War – Xosé M. Núñez Seixas: Some Reflections on the Great War and the Nationality Question in Europe – Patrizia Dogliani: A Civil War of Words in Italy: Italian intellectuals from Interventionism into WWI to Engagement into Fascism – Ana Paula Pires: The Sound of the Mind: Portuguese Intellectuals and the First World War – María Inés Tato: The Latin American Intellectual Field in the Face of the First World War: An Initial Approach – Vita Fortunati: Controversial Memories in the Discourse/ Narrative of World War I – Miquel Berga: Fought in Narrative: English Literature and the Cultural Memory of World War I – Mireia Llorens Ruiz: From Arcadia to Armageddon: Literary Conventions and Transgressions in the Work of Siegfried Sassoon – Antonio Monegal: Shell-Shocked Legacies: Narratives of Trauma in Virginia Woolf, W. H. R. Rivers and Pat Barker – Maximiliano Fuentes Codera: The Great War as an Expression of the Dispute between the «Two Spains» – Paul Aubert: The Motives of Francophilia: History of a Frustration – Xavier Pla: «A war is a volcano»: Theorists of War, Journalists in the Trenches and Intellectual Positions from Barcelona during the Great War – José Ramón González: Toward a Pro-Ally Collective Imagination: Spanish Writers in the Face of the Great War – August Rafanell: The Squadron of the Star: Catalan War Poetry – Enric Bou: Witnesses to an ‘Apocalyptic Storm’: Catalan Intellectuals and the Great War – David Jiménez Torres: Janus’s Relevance: Ramiro de Maeztu and the Great War – Àngel Duarte/Francesc Montero: Fighting and Writing for Catalonia and France: Frederic Pujulà and the Catalan Volunteers in the Trenches – Joan Safont Plumed: Amadeu Hurtado at the Iberia Magazine: A Mainstay of Catalan Francophilia.

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Xavier Pla is Senior Lecturer of Catalan Contemporary Literature and Theory of Literature and Head of the Department of Philology and Communication at Universitat de Girona. The main focus of his research is on diaries, memoirs, everyday-life literature and, more specifically, literary journalism in interwar Europe. He has edited and written introductions for many volumes by Eugeni d’Ors, Josep Pla, Eugeni Xammar, Jorge Semprún or Claudio Magris. Maximiliano Fuentes is Associate Lecturer of Contemporary History at Universitat de Girona. He specializes in the political relations between Spain and France during the Great War, Spanish intellectuals and the war, and cultural relations between Argentina and Spain during the first decades of the twentieth century. Francesc Montero is Assistant Scholar of Contemporary Literature and project manager at Universitat de Girona. His research focuses mainly on literary journalism under the Spanish Republic and before and after the Spanish civil war.

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