Hassen mit allen Sinnen

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Silke Fehlemann
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
Structural Problem ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First World

Abstract The mode of irreconcilability was a structural problem of the Weimar Republic. The violent experience of the First World War had intensified the emergence of new patterns of perception which appeared to be almost obsessively related to the body. This development was accompanied by an upswing of visualization opportunities. Using the example of leading Weimar politicians, it can be demonstrated how sensory mobilization could represent gateways for anti-democratic agitation. These practices could destabilize the republic by reviling its representatives by visualization. The early Nazi press expanded the arsenal of sensory mobilization. The destabilization of the moral, political, and aesthetic order worked through a clear radicalization and dynamization of traditional revilement strategies down to the local level.

scholarly journals “Like being trapped in a drum”: The Poetics of Resonance in Frances Itani’s Deafening

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-232
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This paper considers how Frances Itani’s Deafening imaginatively rethinks our understanding of the Great War in the age of postmemory. Seeing as the novel is set in Canada and Europe during the First World War and takes as its protagonist a deaf woman, the poetic attention given to the senses as a horizon of phenomenological experience magnifies the moral bonds that the characters establish in defi ance of both deafness and death. Guided by the theoretical reasoning of Marianne Hirsch, Elaine Scarry, and Alison Landsberg as well as contemporary phenomenological thinking, most significantly that of Edward S. Casey, Steven Connor, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper examines how the novel’s attentiveness to the materiality of the body in regard to the ethical collisions of sound and silence as well as life and death contributes to a poetics of resonance that generates prosthetic memories, turning the anonymous record of war into a private experience of moral endurance inscribed on the ear of historical legacy.

scholarly journals Criza Corporalităţii În Poetica Lui Ilarie Voronca

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Alexandru Foitoș
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to highlight the vanguardist poetical universe of Ilarie Voronca, focusing on the construction of corporeal representations. The poetics of corporeality is associated with the concept of “crisis”, the latter being reverberated in the vanguard lyrical works as an effect of the historical and social context of the 20th century, which is the First World War. As a result, the consequences of this context bring to the vanguard writers poetical substance, which encapsulates the body and the disease, these two being transposed into several eerie, radical and shocking images in Ilarie Voronca’s poetics. This paper is going to demonstrate the existence of several corporeal representations in Ilarie Voronca’s poems, which are mainly represented by the vulnerable body, viewed as a limit and as the diseased/the suffering, proving that the crisis of corporeality is the effect of the historical conflagration at the beginning of the 20th century.

Saving the nation from starvation: the heroic age of food control, June 1917 to July 1918

Rural History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (02) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Martin
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
First World War ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Food Control ◽  
World War ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
War Effort ◽  
First World

AbstractThe civilian food shortages and accompanying malnutrition that characterised the latter stages of the First World War were instrumental in fundamentally changing the course of European history. In Russia, food shortages were a key underlying factor in precipitating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, while in Germany, food shortages led to the so-called ‘turnip winter’ of 1917, which effectively helped to undermine commitment to the war effort and contribute to the country’s defeat. In spite of Britain’s precarious dependence on imported food, and the shipping losses inflicted by German U-boats, the population was less badly affected. This achievement has been attributed to the work undertaken by Lord Rhondda, the second food controller, whose actions were characterised as the ‘heroic age of food control’. This article uses evidence from official government reports, newspapers and diaries, memoirs and biographies to challenge the prevailing historiography about the success of food control measures in Britain during the First World War. It shows that the Ministry of Food under Lord Rhondda’s period of tenureship was not only indecisive, but that efforts to save the nation from malnutrition, if not actual starvation, were in large part the result of initiatives implemented at the local level.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Beryl Pong
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

The introduction examines how writers anticipated the Second World War in the interwar period, and why dread became a pervasive experience in the 1930s and 1940s. Beginning with the problem of how to define the spatio-temporal boundaries of modern wartime, it argues that, with war looming, modernist time philosophy gradually shifted focus from the past to the future. The chapter then presents a model for understanding Second World Wartime through the concept of late modernist chronophobia. As a war understood to be a repetition of the First World War, but whose effects were expected to be more catastrophic and total, it is characterized by a fear of time itself. During the Blitz, this is enacted on a local level on the home front, through the temporalities of aerial bombardment. The chapter discusses why, as a bridge between the memory of the First World War and the incipient temporalities of the Cold War, the Second World War is crucial to understanding how modern wartime developed in the twentieth century.

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