Laurence Stallings

Author(s):  
David A. Rennie

Perhaps more than any author, Stallings exemplified the multimedia and collaborative nature of World War I writing in America. Following his bitter anti-war novel Plumes, Stallings co-authored the popular play What Price Glory with Maxwell Anderson, which led to Stallings’s involvement in The Big Parade—one of the most lucrative films of the silent era—and a film adaptation of What Price Glory As well as his diversity of representational forms, Stallings’s war writing was marked by an increasingly positive attitude to warfare, which emerged in his later short stories and his World War I history, The Doughboys.

Author(s):  
Giorgio Mariani

This chapter examines the juxtaposition of war and gender in The Backwash of War, a collection of thirteen short stories by Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) based on her experience as a volunteer nurse in Belgium at a hospital behind the French lines during World War I. La Motte's stories literally devoted to the wounds of the Great War, as well as the psychological and moral degradation caused by the conflict. Yet La Motte also acknowledges how even her own critiques, no matter how intransigent, are always at risk of feeding back into the machinery of war on both ideological and practical grounds. As a woman, she understood quite well how war discourse strategically exploits the opposition it sets up between the peaceful virtues of womanhood and the warlike instincts of masculinity by constructing the protection of the former as a license for the latter. This chapter also considers the themes of medicine and torture in The Backwash of War.


Author(s):  
Anne O. Fisher

The writing duo collectively known as "Il’f and Petrov" is best known for two early Soviet satirical novels featuring the wisecracking con artist Ostap Bender, The Twelve Chairs (Dvenadtsat’ stul’ev, 1928) and The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoi telenok, 1931). They also collaborated on screenplays, short stories, essays, novellas, newspaper columns, and an American travelogue, as well as publishing individually. Both the Russian Orthodox Petrov and the Jewish Il’f were born and raised in the cosmopolitan port city of Odessa, renowned for its humor and vibrant Jewish culture. After enduring World War I and civil war in "hungry Odessa," both moved independently to Moscow in 1923 and wrote for humorous publications, including the newspaper Gudok (The Steam Whistle) along with Petrov’s brother Valentin Kataev, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Yuri Olesha. After the success of their Bender novels, they started writing for Pravda in 1932, which sent them to travel the United States by car in the winter of 1935–6, resulting in the travelogue One-Story America (Odnoetazhnaia Amerika, 1937). Their art’s ironic quotation and ambivalent intertextuality deeply influenced Russian everyday and literary language. Il’f died in Moscow in 1937 of tuberculosis. Petrov continued to write and became a war correspondent during World War II; he died in a plane crash outside Sevastopol in 1942.


2018 ◽  
pp. 214-260
Author(s):  
Sujata S. Mody

Chapter 5 examines two landmark Hindi short stories that contested aspects of Dwivedi’s literary agenda. In ‘Dulāīvālī’ (quilt-woman), Banga Mahila used regional and domestic women’s speech in addition to Dwivedi’s preferred standard, Khari Boli prose. Her fictional exploration of the impact of nationalist ideals on middle-class Bengali women in the Hindi-belt further challenged the patriarchal authority with which Dwivedi and other nationalists sought to shape an emergent nation. Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, in ‘Usne kahā thā’ (she had said), employed regional/ethnic speech that was also gendered, as masculine and vulgar, once again flouting Dwivedi’s preferences for an upright, Khari Boli standard. His story, featuring a Sikh soldier fighting in Europe during World War I, upheld some nationalist ideals, but also defied conventional mores. Both stories underwent extensive editorial revisions, yet there remains a record in their final published versions of their authors’ defiance, and of Dwivedi’s strategic responses to such challenges.


Hemingway and Italy collects the most innovative and most relevant papers that were presented at the sixteenth Biennial Hemingway Conference in Venice, Italy, in 2014. These essays address Hemingway’s World War I experience in Italy, his Italian associates, and the ways in which the Italian culture intersects with Hemingway’s life and work. Contributors analyze Hemingway’s Italian works, such as the novels A Farewell to Arms and Across the River and into the Trees, and neglected short stories such as “The Good Lion.” This collection also features those who knew him and served drinks to him during his Italian days. This volume is introduced by Hemingway himself, a previously unpublished sketch called “Torcello Piece,” that clearly reflects Hemingway’s devotion to his adopted homeland.


Author(s):  
Jay Watson

The Introduction defines the key terms of modernization, modernity, and modernism that inform the study as a whole. It then traces the development of Faulkner scholarship from a primarily aesthetic understanding of literary modernism, through a primarily philosophical and intellectual one, toward the culturalist and materialist emphases of the new modernism studies. It details Faulkner’s prolific early efforts to become a modernist writer in two novels and numerous short stories dealing with World War I, before The Sound and the Fury made “Great War modernism” the first version of modernism he was to put behind him as a novelist. Finally, it sketches the book’s four-part architecture and provides an overview of the seven chapters that follow.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Gabriela Tucan

Abstract This article dwells on three of Hemingway’s canonical short stories, set in Italy. While not entirely autobiographical, they deal with Hemingway’s inner turmoil caused by his experience during World War I. From its inarticulate nature, pain half emerges into conversations between patients and physicians in A Very Short Story and In Another Country, but disappears into silence in A Way You’ll Never Be. The paper argues that the nature of physical and mental wounds, whether visible or concealed, fails objectification.


2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Alla Gromova

The theme of death in the works of Leonid ZurovThe article deals with the theme of death in the works of the writer of young emigration Leonid Zurov based on short stories and novels: Cadet, Ancient Path, Field, Blue Cow-wheat, Stage in Narva, Dagmar Forest. The presentation of this motif in the writer’s work has a cross-sectional character. The theme of death is central in the works of Zurov. In his works he represents events from the times of the Russian Revolution, World War I and the civil war in Russia — shows the tragedy of armed conflicts, which entail the death of many people. Wars, revolutions and other social cataclysms, according to Zurov, break the natural course of life and contradict laws of natural being. In order to artistic expression of his ideas, the writer uses mythological images and motifs related to death folklore, evangelical, eschatological writings. Tragedy in revealing the theme of death is removed due to the writer’s artistic philosophy, in which the world appears as a harmonious and expedient unity of existence. The teleological nature of being in the artistic world of Zurov is based on two most important ideas: the idea of the inclusion of a person in the circle of natural existence and the humanistic idea of the self-worth of each human life.Temat śmierci w twórczości Leonida ZurowaW artykule autorka analizuje temat śmierci w twórczości pisarza młodej emigracji rosyjskiej — Leonida Zurowa na podstawie opowiadań i powieści: Kadet, Dawna podróż, Pole, Ivan-da-marya, Poziom w Narwie, Dagmarski las. Przedstawienie tego motywu w twórczości pisarza ma w pracy charakter przekrojowy. Zurow opisuje w swoich dziełach wydarzenia z czasów rewolucji rosyjskiej, I wojny światowej oraz wojny domowej w Rosji — pokazuje tragedię konfliktów zbrojnych, pociągających za sobą śmierć wielu osób. Według pisarza wojny, rewolucje i inne kataklizmy społeczne naruszają bieg życia i są sprzeczne z prawami naturalnej egzystencji. W celu artystycznej ekspresji swoich idei pisarz ucieka się do mitologizacji obrazów i motywów związanych ze śmiercią folklor, ewangelia, pisma eschatologicze. Odsuwa tragedię na bok dzięki swojej filozofii, według której świat to harmonijna jedność wszystkich rzeczy. Zdaniem autorki opracowania teleologiczny charakter istnienia w literackim świecie Zurowa opiera się na dwóch najważniejszych ideach: idei włączenia człowieka do kręgu naturalnej egzystencji i humanistycznej idei godności każdego życia ludzkiego.


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