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English 436aNOVELS OF THE GREAT WAR
Professor Stephen Ross | @ghostprof | [email protected] | 250.721.7237
Why the “Great” War?
biggest war in history to that time
16 million dead
another 16 million wounded
the “war to end war”
A Mills Bomb (hand grenade)
WWI gave usmachine guns
tinned food
aerial bombardment
submarines
tanks
flamethrowers
poison gas
tracer ammunition
mobile x-ray machines
maxi-pads
tissues
teabags
wrist watches
zippers
It also gave us
trenchfoot
It also gave us
trenchfoot
Shell Shock
It also gave us
trenchfoot
Shell Shock
the first global pandemic
of influenza
It also gave us
trenchfoot
Shell Shock
the first global pandemic
of influenza
the twentieth century
Degenerationcivilization “an old bitch gone in the teeth”
ends “not with a bang, but with a whimper”
decadence
aestheticism
miscegenation
zionism
The West was soft, weak, effeminate, fading, flabby, flaccid
Degeneration
Oscar Wilde1854-1900
craving for violence destruction cleansing purification cauterization purging explosive change revolution
craving for violence destruction cleansing purification cauterization purging explosive change revolution
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