Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium - Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights

Imprint and Contents

‘The Great War as Cultural Heritage’. Preface (Annette Becker)

Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights. Preface by the Editors of “Historische Belgienforschung”

Introduction. Emotion, Experience, Memory (Geneviève Warland)

1 Yet another book on the First World War?

2 The Memex WWI project

3 An interdisciplinary project

4 Insight into the book chapters

5 Emotion, experience, attitude, representation and memory as keywords

References

Fighting and Writing. The Psychological Functions of Diary Writing in the First World War (Rose Spijkerman, Olivier Luminet & Antoon Vrints)

1 Introduction

2 Diaries in psychology: functions and effects

3 Objectives and protagonists

4 Detachment and avoidance

5 Confronting

6 Emotion regulation

7 Structuring time and place

8 Conclusion

References

Nil inultum remanebit?: Germany in the War Diaries of the Historians Paul Fredericq and Henri Pirenne (Geneviève Warland & Olivier Luminet)

1 Belgian scholars’ attitude in the First World War’s aftermath

2 Belgian scholars’ war experience:Paul Fredericq and Henri Pirenne’s war diaries

3 The Germans in occupied Belgium:anger, sadness and coping strategies

4 An honor code: avoiding contact with Germans

5 Disappointment towards German scholars

6 Fredericq and Pirenne’s deportation to Germany:the war camps and the university city of Jena

7 Pirenne and Fredericq among the Germans:the provincial cities of Bürgel and Creuzburg

8 The return to Belgium and the First World War’s aftermath

9 Conclusion: diary writing, emotion regulation and cultural mobilization against the Germans

Unpublished Sources

References

War, Narratives and Memory: The Defence and Fall of the Belgian Fort Cities in the Cultural Memory of the First World War (Myrthel Van Etterbeeck & Karla Vanraepenbusch)

1 Introduction

2 Wartime events and experiences

3 Narratives mediated during the war

4 Cultural memory: literature

5 Cultural memory: memorials and street names

6 Conclusion

References

Annex 1

Dulce et decorum est: Reading First World War Poetry (Elke Brems, Reine Meylaerts, Pierre Bouchat & Olivier Klein)

1 Introduction

2 The translator

3 The critics

4 The students

5 Conclusion

References

In Flanders Fields

In Vlaamse velden

Counter-Attack

Tegenaanval

Retelling the War to Give a Chance to Peace. A Comparative Analysis of Great War Memories (Valérie Rosoux, Pierre Bouchat & Olivier Klein)

1 Introduction

2 Telling the past in another way

3 Survey on the representations of the Great War

4 Empirical evidences

5 Analysis: Divergent or incompatible memories?

6 Conclusion

References

The Commemorations of the First World War as Seen through Postage Stamps (Chantal Kesteloot & Laurence van Ypersele)

1 Introduction

2 The first stamps

3 Who decides?

4 Stamps in wartime

5 The post-war period: an immediate turnto a commemorative perspective

6 The permanence of the Soldier-King

7 Forgetting the Great War

8 The ever-present Great War (2008–2018)

9 Conclusion

References

The Paradoxical Impacts of the Commemorations of the Great War in Belgium (Pierre Bouchat, Olivier Klein & Valérie Rosoux)

1 Introduction

2 Commemorations and persuasion

3 Exhibitions

4 Documentaries

5 General discussion

6 Conclusion

References

Conclusions. Traces of Wartime Emotions in our Collective Memory (Bernard Rimé)

Traces of Wartime Emotions in our Collective Memory

1 Interdisciplinary research with a panoramic view

2 Written traces from diaries or poems

3 Traces in streets, on walls and on envelopes

4 Vivid traces from younger generations

5 Final word

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