War and Aftermath of War
This week studies both the Great
War and its domestic consequences. Amongst these consequences must
be included the sharp and dirty "Anglo-Irish War", and the similarly unsavory
"Irish Civil War" following, which resulted in the foundation of the Irish
Free State.
But one of the most enduring aspects of the Great
War is the fascination, at least in the western world, with the horrific
pressures individuals faced in extended years of combat, especially in
the midst of the endless peril of the trenches of Flanders and France.
Thus, your writing and your discussion this week will concentrate
also on the ways in which this focus has played out in memoir, in war poetry,
in fiction both contemporary and modern, and in the attention of
medicine to the physical and psychological effects of this wounding in
both body and mind.
Monday
- Homes Fit For Heroes paper
due
Wednesday
- Discussion on Pat Barker's REGENERATION & related readings
Friday
- "Ireland - War and Partition" |
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