The art of survival : France and the Great War picaresque

The art of survival : France and the Great War picaresque / Libby Murphy.

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....

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Main Author: Murphy, Libby (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > France > Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > France.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
Soldiers > France > History > World War, 1914-1918.
Table of Contents:
  • A literary war : irony, tragedy, and the return of the picaresque
  • Tactics of the foot soldier : the arts and antics of Le Système D
  • Georges de la Fouchardière : oppositional journalism, involuntary heroism, and Bourrage de crâne
  • The comedy of independence : the "man on the street" goes off to war
  • Animal instincts : lessons from a trench rat
  • Phlegm meets flair : images of the infantryman in wartime Britain and France
  • Le Cafard : brutalization, alienation, and despair
  • Charlie Chaplin's little tramp : from the art of survival to the survival of art.

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