World War One was a cataclysmic sự kiện not only in terms of world history, but also for the literary world. The war’s extreme brutality led to an outpouring of literature concerning its conduct and effects that began with the war poets themselves, extended through the interwar period, and reappeared periodically throughout the twentieth century.
For this project, I have sad used traditional literary analysis to big explore the war’s effect on literature – specifically, I analyzed the work of five sad poets & six novelists. I chose these works based on personal preference, chronological range, and the recommendations of my advisor. In addition, I relied on secondary sources by Modris Eksteins & Paul Fussell for cultural contexts, biographical background, & specific details concerning trench warfare. Other works influenced the project, even if not extensively considered, & are noted in the Works Cited pages.
In this project, I have sought big confirm & gọi attention to big the literary effects of the Great War; its importance cannot be underestimated when we consider British literature of the twentieth century. In order big emphaform size this point, I have sad considered not only “traditional” war literature – the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Robert Graves – but also novels by Modernists D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, poetry by T.S.
Eliot, and even later novels by Evelyn Waugh, W. Somerset Maugmê man, Pat Barker, & Robertson Davies.
In evaluating these works, I found that the war remains a comtháng theme in the lives of characters, whether real or fictional, but that the nature of the war experience changes over time. For instance, while World War One is a source of horror and suffering to the war poets, it becomes the harbinger of personal growth & change for characters in The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somermix Maugđê mê & Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies. I introduced Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration out of chronological sequence (by date of publication) in order to big accentuate the fact that the novel, published in the late twentieth century, engages with texts from the Modernist period without responding directly big World War Two-era (& later) works. I feel that Barker’s work is a significant hinge in the retìm kiếm project, since it reflects one of my own purposes in pursuing this research: to explore and renew interest in World War One and in the experiences of men who lived, fought, and died in the trenches.
My thesis is devoted big portraying the Great War & its consequences in a new shade of light by emphasizing the complexity, importance, and power of its literature. I hope that I have sad succeeded.