The men with broken faces : gueules cassées of the First World War /
"Perhaps the ultimate victims of the Great War, facially wounded servicemen became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collect...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Oxford :
Peter Lang,
[2015]
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| Collection: | Cultural history and literary imagination ;
v. 25. |
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| Accès en ligne: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: Gueules cassées : the face of war
- Part I. The soldiers' journey : from the front to civilian life
- Hospitals as transitional spaces
- Facing the world : economic and social reintegration
- Shaping a collective identity
- Part II. Artistic and literary representations
- Visual depictions of facially injured men
- Describing the "unspeakable"? : gueules cassées in literature.