Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-1948
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Committee Chair
Hassold, Ernest C.
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Kutak, Robert I.
Subject
War in literature
Abstract
The artist, whether he was novelist, poet, painter or essayist, was caught in the maelstrom of violence and destruction that was World War I. Conscription was employed in most nations participating in the War and the artist, with his accurate, discerning eye and his sensitivity, was destined to report the War as he actually saw it unfold before him. A great part of the creative activity these artists engaged in was an analysis and reportage of the years from 1914, to 1918. Before the Armistice had been signed on November 11, 1918, Henri Barbusse had published his indictment of war, Le Feu, in 1917. The novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt for that year. Barbusse's work was the beginning of a stream of war books, poems, dramas and essays that was to come in the nineteen twenties and the nineteen thirties of the Twentieth Century. Practically every participant nation in the War was represented in this tremendous output of' war literature. Such Americans of literary talents as John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Paul Green, Robert E. Sherwood, Laurence Stallings, E. E. Cummings and Archibald MacLeish served at the front and later expressed themselves regarding war.
Recommended Citation
Hagemann, E. R., "The poet at war." (1948). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1976.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1976
