Literary journalism and World War I

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"This collection of essays explores the mle World War I had in the global development of literary joumalism. Looking beyond the most canonical voices of the genre of the period, it draye a map of literary joumalists engaged with the epistemolog,ical and ontological problems of reporting the conflict on both sides of the Atlantic. Among the primary sources included in this volume are texts by John Buchan, Will Irwin, Frans Masereel, Velona Pilcher and Eugeni Xammar. Incorporating a wide range of international critical perspectives, this book offers a rich and complex vision of the press during the Great War. By presenting excerpts from several primary sources alongside a contextual gloss and a scholarly essay, the collection highlights the varied effects produced when literary techniques were fused with factual reportage. The primas), texts selected corne from neutral and warring countries alike, including the pacisfist polemics of Belgian graphie artist Frans Masereel to the bitter irony of the soldiers' own trench joumals. These literaiy journalists bear witness to the common challenges with which writers from all nations grappled as they attempted to report on a new kind of warfare. Andrew Griffiths, PhD is Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University and the Open University in the UK. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between joumalism, I iterature and imperialism in the Tate l9th and early 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on war correspondence. Sara Prieto, PhD is Assistant Professer at the Universidad de Alicante in Spain and an active member of the International Society for First World War Studies. The main focus of her research is on war reportage during World War I in Britain and in the United States. Soenke Zehle, PhD is Lecturer in Media Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Saar, Germany, where he also co-initiated and currently works as Managing Director of the academy's xm:lab (Experimental Media Lab), as well as K8, a non-profit company with a focus on educational research and critical design. His research themes include visual culture and documentary aesthetics."--Page 4 of cover.