"And the return for many was not": The narration of death in folk song about the Great War
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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.24.16338Keywords:
traditional song, First World War, perception of the dead, landscape of death, ethnophilology
Abstract
The hundreds of Italian traditional songs composed during the First World War offer a peculiar and unpredicted point of view on death and on the dead. Far from the patriotic rhetoric of the conscripts’ songs, a few of them give us the frightful image of human beings who live on a frontier where the dead are their comrades in arms, killed behind them, before them and after them: a real landscape of death of which corpses represent the macabre outline.
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Francesco Benozzo, Università di Bologna
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
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2019-12-30
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Benozzo, F. (2019). "And the return for many was not": The narration of death in folk song about the Great War. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 24(24), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.24.16338
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