War and Laughter
Author | : James Oppenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Author | : James Oppenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Oppenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Lesley Milne |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443887684 |
War is no laughing matter. During a war, however, laughter can play a vital role in sustaining morale, both in the armies at the Front and in their homelands. Among wars, the 1914–18 conflict has left a haunting legacy, and remains a central topic in modern European history. This book offers a comparative study of the impact of the war in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at. By searching the pages of four humorous-satirical magazines, Punch in the UK, Le Rire (France), Simplicissimus (Germany), and Novy Satirikon (Russia), all of which supported the national war efforts, it examines the ways in which humour made an important contribution to the propaganda war. All four magazines were famous for their cartoons, a selection of which is included, but much of the humour was expressed through the written word, in skits, squibs, comic tales, and light verse. Translated into English, these snapshots of the moment are brought together to chart the responses on both sides of the conflict to issues and unfolding events, identifying the stories that nations liked to tell about themselves and also the ones they liked to be told.
Author | : Jakub Kazecki |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1443839493 |
Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives explores the appearances and functions of humour and laughter in selected novels and short stories, based on autobiographical experiences, written by authors during the war and in the Weimar Era (1919–1933). This study focuses on popular and lesser-known works of German literature that played an important role in the socio-political life of the Weimar Republic: Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920), Advance from Mons 1914 by Walter Bloem (1916), The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (1927), and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929). The author shows that these works often share surprisingly similar narrative strategies in describing humorous experiences and soldier laughter to justify direct violence and oppressive power structures, regardless of the works’ ideological assignment and their popular and critical reception. This book also examines the parodic imitations of All Quiet on the Western Front, the German text All Quiet on the Trojan Front by Emil Marius Requark (1930) and the American film So Quiet on the Canine Front by Zion Myers and Jules White (1931) as significant polemical contributions that use humoristic strategies to stress or undermine elements of the original text.
Author | : James 1882-1932 Oppenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371066642 |
Author | : BiblioBazaar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781348163831 |
Author | : Hudá Barakāt |
Publisher | : Garnet Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A novel of the civil war in Lebanon whose protagonist is a homosexual trying to remain neutral. But as he discovers, neutrality in a civil war is not possible. He becomes involved like everyone else and is the better man for the experience gained. The novel won an award in Lebanon.
Author | : James Oppenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781331361862 |
Excerpt from War and Laughter Morning and I Old lover: I laugh because of a mighty secret that's mine... That's why... Is it five o'clock? Then let it be... Let the chicks go pecking the corn, And the calves go cropping the grass... Am I alone? Oh, only alone with a mighty secret that's mine... Then morning bursts out laughing: twenty birds are startled to song... And he and I in the silence Wink once again to each other... Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Anna Campen |
Publisher | : Memoirs Foundation |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 0980717256 |
Author | : Seth William Bell Folsom |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612518729 |
Where Youth and Laughter Go completes LtCol Seth Folsom’s recounting of his personal experiences in command over a decade of war. It is the culminating chapter of a trilogy that began with The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq in 2006 and continued with In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War in 2010. The chronicle of Folsom’s command of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, “The Cutting Edge,” and his harrowing deployment to Afghanistan’s volatile Sangin District presents a deeper look into the complexities and perils of modern counterinsurgency operations in America’s longest war. Charged with the daunting task of pacifying a region with a long history of violence and instability, Folsom and his Marines struggled daily to wage a dynamic campaign against the shadowy enemy force that held Sangin’s population firmly in its grip. With peace and stability always teetering on the brink of collapse, the Marines of “The Cutting Edge” confronted their own mortality as they conducted endless patrols through Sangin’s minefields while fighting to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan villagers. No other books have been published from the perspective of a Marine infantry battalion commander in Afghanistan. It was Folsom’s job, as the unit commander, to lead his Marines under impossible circumstances. LtCol Folsom made the unusual decision to patrol with his rifle squads every day through Sangin, where his Marines dodged improvised explosive devices and sniper fire from an invisible enemy. As his tour progressed and casualties mounted, he found his objectivity evaporating and the love for his men growing. Where Youth and Laughter Go is more than a blood-and-guts war story, it is a jarring, “boots on the ground”–level examination of the myriad challenges and personal dilemmas that today’s young service members face as the United States approaches its final endgame in Afghanistan.