Hall, Radclyffe (1880–1943)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Great War ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
Radclyffe Hall ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Well Of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall was a British novelist, poet, and lyricist. A contemporary of the Bloomsbury Group and proponent of Havelock Ellis's sexological theories, Hall is best known for the ground-breaking novel of sexual inversion, The Well of Loneliness (1928). The novel was the center of a landmark obscenity trial, and has continued to attract controversy. Its depiction of inversion has been both lauded and criticized by feminist, queer, and trans theorists. Hall was born Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall on August 12, 1880 to wealthy parents who divorced in 1883. She briefly attended King's College London and spent a year studying in Germany. In 1912 Hall converted to Catholicism with her partner at the time, the singer Mabel Batten. At Batten’s request, Hall did not serve in the women’s ambulance corps during the Great War (Baker). However, a number of Hall’s fictional characters find autonomy and sexual identity through their war service.

The Great War, Independence, and Latvian Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4 (463)) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Benedikts Kalnačs
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Written Sources

The article focuses on the representation of the year 1918 in Latvian literature. On November 18, the independent Republic of Latvia was proclaimed, and in the years to come international recognition of the state’s sovereignty followed. In retrospect, this event stimulated a number of salutary descriptions and interpretations and certainly provides a milestone in the history of the Latvian nation. It is, however, also important to discuss the proclamation of independence in the context of the Great War that brought a lot of suffering to the inhabitants of Latvia. Therefore, a critical evaluation of the events preceding the year 1918 is certainly worthy of discussion. The article first sketches the historical and geopolitical contexts of the period immediately before and during the Great War as well as the changed situation in its aftermath. This introduction is followed by a discussion of the novel 18 (2014) by the contemporary Latvian author Pauls Bankovskis (b. 1973) that provides a critical retrospective of the events leading to the proclamation of the nation state from a twenty-first century perspective. Bankovskis employs an intertextual approach, engaging with a number of earlier publications dealing with the same topic. Among the authors included are Anna Brigadere, Aleksandrs Grīns, Sergejs Staprāns, Mariss Vētra, and others. The paper contextualizes the contribution of these writers within the larger historical picture of the Great War and the formation of the nation states and speculates on the contemporary relevance of the representation of direct experience, and the use of written sources related to these events.

scholarly journals The Impact of World War I on Middle East “Arabs” in Awwad’s “Al-Raghif”: A Cultural Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Lateef Wisam Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
World War ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

Abstract My paper will explore the genre of war narrative from a cultural perspective, namely the impact of the Great War on Arabs in the novel Al-Raghif (The Loaf’) in 1939 by the Lebanese novelist Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, as it is the first Arabic novel which is totally concerned with WWI and its longlasting consequences: hunger, despair and the elusive promise of freedom to Arabs.

The Great War in the Book Ithaca and Comments by Miloš Crnjanski

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Milisav Savić
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The Great War

Crnjanski’s Ithaca and Comment, published forty years after the collection of poems about World War One entitled Lyrics of Ithaca are considered as a fragmented autobiographical novel about the poet's participation in the Great War.Although he found himself at the front, Crnjanski rarely describes battles, even less cruelties of war. He is the narrator of the war's echo. Both the poetic and prosaic story is linked by an idea about the meaninglessness of war. Crnjanski's anti-war stance in Ithaca is also present in the novel Diary About Čarnojević - Crnjanski's ‘war novel’. Ithaca and Comments is the first Serbian postmodern book which banishes borders between genres.

War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Modris Eksteins
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Great War

Within months of its publication in January 1929 Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was the world's best-selling book. It provoked a feverish controversy between those who claimed that it was an accurate representation of the war experience of 1914–18, portraying the utter futility of war, and those who denounced it as propaganda and an irreverent commercial exploitation of the Great War. Ironically, despite the intended focus of this heated debate, both the novel and the response which it elicited were more an emotional expression of postwar disillusionment and distress than a contribution to the understanding of the actual war experience.

“Behind the Lines” in Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front: Rewriting a Masculinist Tradition

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L. Sensibar
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Deadly Weapon ◽  
Portrait Painting ◽  
The Great War

A Son at the Front is the story of a war fought, as Edith Wharton said, “from the rear,” a war in which the art of portrait painting becomes a deadly weapon. In John Campton's World War I Paris, where the fashionable portrait painter wields his paintings in a behind the lines battle to gain, as he says, “possession” of his grown son, Wharton probes the sexual politics underlying the development of modernist aesthetics by writing a new kind of war novel. The novel invokes and then questions a central trope of the fiction and poetry that, until recently, has been identified as The Literature of the Great War.

“The Mild, Intellectual Light”: Idea and Theme in Howards End

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 453-463
Author(s):  
Frederick P. W. McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Howards End ◽  
The Great War

Although most critics agree that Howards End (1910) is a less perfect novel than A Passage to India (1924), it is, in its own right, spontaneous and vigorous and more confidently authoritative. Even adverse criticism of Howards End has tended to recognize it as “the most ambitious as well as the most explicit of the novels.” Possibly because Forster had not brooded excessively over his materials and because the Great War had not yet accentuated his latent pessimism, Howards End has the force deriving from a poised and fundamentally positive view of life.If Howards End lacks the fully mature artistry of A Passage to India, it is largely free from the negative effects upon Forster's art of his later skepticism—a disturbing austerity verging upon spiritual fatigue, and an almost excessive distancing of the writer from his characters verging upon indifference to them. In Howards End the Schlegel sisters are involved in emotionally more central situations than are Fielding, Aziz, and Adela Quested, and they are themselves warmer, more impulsive, and more genial. In some ways their perplexities and valuations of experience—reflecting their life in the now spiritually removed period of prosperous Edwardian England—are indeed remote. Yet Helen and Margaret Schlegel, through their sensitivity, conscientiousness, and moral complexity, achieve at times a depth and spaciousness transcending the somewhat limited universe prescribed for their activity and warrant a continued concern with the novel. Forster has also conceived their friends, acquaintances, relatives, and antagonists, for the most part, with vigor, with understanding, and with sympathy.

The Expatriate Idyll

2018 ◽  
pp. 98-125
Author(s):  
William Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
American Expatriates ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Great War

A critique of American expatriates, mostly veterans of World War I, who turn Europe into a vast American playground. The alleged justification of their behaviour is their traumatic experiences of the Great War which has been over for ten years at the start of the novel. Robert Cohn’s character contrasts with that of his fellow expatriates and sheds light on their affections and sterility. He also represents the condition of post-war literature, severely tried by the realities of the war, but slowly re-establishing its strength and ability to comment meaningfully on the contemporary world.

PAT BARKER’S «REGENERATION» IN THE LIGHT OF THE LITERARY TRADITION OF THE XXTH CENTURY

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Oleg Pokhalenkov
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
British Society ◽  
Great War ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Great War

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the works belong to the English war prose about the Great War. Despite the fact that in many European literatures the First World War is no longer a central artistic image (due to the shift of focus to the Second World War), in the UK the attention to the preservation of the memory of the Great War is still maintained. The novel «Regeneration» by P. Barker is an example of a modern interpretation of this topic. The writer does not abandon the existing tradition in the English literature («Death of a Hero» by R. Aldington) and even more clearly shows hypocrisy of the British society. As once the central character of the novel «Death of a Hero» by R. Aldington, the Barker’s hero refuses to adapt socially to what is happening at the front. Experiencing the English snobbery because of his origin, watching the death of his colleagues, he is aware of the lies and propaganda from the state and begins to consider his participation in the war as a kind of springboard for further successful life after it.

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