Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521846035
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 20th century; English literature; History and criticism; Literature and the war; Touch in literature; World War, 1914-1918
First sentence: On 26 March 1917, in a front-line newspaper, some soldiers drew attention to what they thought to be the greatest reality of the Great War: At night, crouching in a shell-hole and filling it, the mud watches, like an enormous octopus.