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Week 3 Discussion 


Instructor Umansky   


6/3/2016 1:34:21 PM

     

Discussion for Week 3. Initial       post of 350-400 words due Thursday, day 3, and at least three responses       that will comprise another 400 words to total 800 words. That means, each       response to a peer needs to be a minimum of a paragraph to meet this       requirement. You must post on four different days, which is a post a day.       In your initial post, continue from my initial thread and use textual       evidence with proper citations whether from the novel or from the Assmann       article. 

Reading:       All Quiet on the Western Front, (Ch. 1, 4, 7,       8, 9, 12 (p. 1-8, 19-28, 51-86, and 109-110 in the online edition) 

Discussion:       In the preface to All Quiet on the Western Front, novelist       Erich Maria Remarque says, “This book is to be neither an accusation nor       a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an       adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to       tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its       shells, were destroyed by the way.” Throughout his novel, Remarque       emphasizes the way that war transformed its participants and made it       impossible for them to return to normal life. Hence historian Modris Eksteins       argues that “All Quiet is more a       comment on the postwar mind, on the postwar view of the war, than an       attempt to reconstruct the reality of the trench experience” (see his       essay “Memory” in Critical Insights: All Quiet on       the Western Front, p. 142 -- available in Ashford’s library, through       the “Literary Reference Center”). In other words,       the novel is about how the memory of war haunts ex-soldiers, but it is       also about how the memory of war haunts the broader society. Discuss the       theme of the war’s effect on soldiers. What exactly does war do to       soldiers, as Remarque portrays it? Cite specific passages from the novel       to support your interpretation. What is role do war memories play in       constructing soldiers’ post-war identities? Once you have a clear understanding       of the soldiers’ case, expand your discussion to society in general. How       does a culture’s war memories affect collective identity? 


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