Book: Touch And Intimacy In First World War Literature War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life. Through extensive archival and historical research, analyzing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
Details of Book: Touch And Intimacy In First World War Literature Book: Touch And Intimacy In First World War Literature
Author: Santanu Das
ISBN: 0521066875
ISBN-13: 9780521066877
, 978-0521066877
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 19062008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 284
Language: English