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Blum, Mary Terese.

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The comitatus in the trenches: Reading the poetry of World War I through the lens of Anglo-Saxon heroism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The comitatus in the trenches: Reading the poetry of World War I through the lens of Anglo-Saxon heroism./
Author:	Blum, Mary Terese.
Description:	407 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1361.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3130216
ISBN:	0496774697

The comitatus in the trenches: Reading the poetry of World War I through the lens of Anglo-Saxon heroism.
Blum, Mary Terese.

The comitatus in the trenches: Reading the poetry of World War I through the lens of Anglo-Saxon heroism. - 407 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1361.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2004.

This study accounts for striking similarities between Old English heroic verse and the trench poetry of World War I by examining the communal relationships among the men within the comitatus, or war-band, both medieval and modern. During the First World War, soldiers in the separate combat units assigned to the western front formed deep and lasting bonds with each other. As the official reasons for fighting the war became increasingly abstract, the soldiers of these small units transferred their allegiance to their specific war-bands, and this commitment of spirit sustained them in battle and in rest. With the destruction of the comitatus, however, survivors often experienced a deep sense of cultural exile. The words of the trench poets and other World War I veterans often reflect an unresolved exilic despair that recalls the sorrow of Anglo-Saxon thegns who outlived their war-bands. By reading the trench poetry alongside the Old English heroic poetry, the reader is better able to understand the profound relationships among the modern soldiers, as well as the sense of exile suffered by those who survived the trenches. Traditional criticism does not often pair Old English and modern poetry; by doing so, this study offers a new interpretation of the World War I verse through its analysis of the Old English heroic poetry. Successive chapters treat the formation, function, life, and death of the comitatus in both periods. Representations of the comitatus in the Old English verse are compared and contrasted with similar representations in the modern trench poetry. Finally, unpublished primary documents written by non-poet First World War soldiers and discovered through archival research provide support for the assertions made about the poetry.

ISBN: 0496774697Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

The comitatus in the trenches: Reading the poetry of World War I through the lens of Anglo-Saxon heroism.
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