Niobean reverberations in post-war literature

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
Post War

Španci v nemški službi na Slovenskem med drugo svetovno vojno

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Klemen Kocjancic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

SPANIARDS IN GERMAN SERVICE IN SLOVENIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAROn Slovenian territory during the Second World War were active different units of foreigners, which fought on the side of the German occupying force; among them were also two different units of Spanish volunteers. First unit, a half-battalion, was garrisoned in Lower Styria, specifically in Zasavje area, where it provided security for coal mines and railway. Second unit, of company strength, was integral part of brigade, then division of so called Karst hunters, based in Slovene Littoral, which was actively participating in counterinsurgency against Italian and Slovene partisans. Using critical analysis and interpretation of wartime sources and post-war literature article is presenting activity of Spanish volunteers in German service in Slovenia. Because of the size of both units Spaniards didn't significantly impact the progress of the Second World War in Slovenia, but are still part of Slovenian military and war history.

Coda

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-264
Author(s):  
Beryl Pong
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Nuclear Technology ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

The coda briefly recapitulates the central concerns of this book by discussing Second World Wartime in relation to the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from Ernst Bloch’s conception of time as a river, and Walter Benjamin’s theory of historical materialism, it discusses why post-war literature and culture looked back to the wartime period through the trope of unexploded bombs, which functioned as mnemonic time capsules. It ends by considering Second World Wartime’s broader relationship to the later chronophobia of the Cold War, when advancements in nuclear technology created a newly fraught relationship between anticipation and retrospection.

On demographic thinking in post-war literature

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
ARRON FOGEL
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals Ιταλικός κινηματογραφικός νεορεαλισμός και ελληνική μεταπολεμική πεζογραφία: Νεορεαλιστική γραφή στο Άνθρωποι και σπίτια του Αντρέα Φραγκιά.

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Νάντια Αυγερινός Φραγκούλη
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Crucial Problem ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Aesthetic

The years 1951-1961 mark the reception of Italian neorealist cinema in Greece with the production of films influenced by neorealism and the discussion of the nature of neorealism by Greek film critics. The novel Anthropi ke spitia [Of Houses and Men] by Adreas Fragkias, published in 1955, four years after the first viewing of De Sica’s Bicycle Thief in Greece, shows significant similarities to the themes and style of the Italian neorealist cinema. Discussing unemployment as a crucial problem of post-war Greek society Anthropi ke spitia presents the life in a poor urban neighbourhood in a series of seemingly random episodes that B. Klaras in his review of the book called ‘cinematic tableaux’. Most importantly, however, it seems that Fragkias’ novel explores the boundaries and the style of realism in post-war literature in a way that resonates the aesthetic principles of the Italian neorealistic films.

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.

W. G. Sebald: Emigrant and Academic

W.G. Sebald ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Uwe Schütte
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk

In this chapter, Schütte introduces Sebald as a writer caught not only between two cultures, but between the worlds of academia and literature. It explores the beginnings of Sebald’s life, from his remote childhood in an Alpine village tohis ‘poisonous’ family inheritance – Sebald considered his parents complicit in the crimes of National Socialism. Schütte goes on to consider Sebald’s emigration to the UK, charting his development as an intellectual and his taking up of writing due to a dissatisfaction with the majority of German post-war literature.

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