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Can I read Memory, Narrative and the Great War : Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience on EtoBox?
Memory, Narrative and the Great War : Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience by David Taylor is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Memory, Narrative and the Great War : Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience about?
Memory, Narrative and the Great War provides a detailed examination of the varied and complex war writings of a relatively marginal figure, Patrick MacGill, within a general framework of our current pre-occupation with blood, mud and suffering. In particular, it seeks to explain how his interpretation of war shifted from the heroic wartime autobiographical trilogy, with its emphasis on 'the romance of the rifleman' to the pessimistic and guilt-ridden interpretations in his post-war novel, Fear!,
Who reads Memory, Narrative and the Great War : Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Taylor
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781387122
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, World War I
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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