Journalists at the Front: Ramiro de Maeztu,Inglaterra en armasand Spanish Intellectuals during the First World War
| Autor: | David Jiménez Torres |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature First World War intellectuals History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry neutral opinión Ramiro de Maeztu Ciencias Sociales Políticas y del Comportamiento Inglaterra en armas propaganda First world war Newspaper crónicas del frente Spain 55 Historia business Humanities Front (military) |
| Zdroj: | Depósito Digital e-UCJC Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC) |
| ISSN: | 1478-3428 1475-3820 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14753820.2013.847158 |
| Popis: | Published in 1916, Ramiro de Maeztu’s short book Inglaterra en armas is, of its author’s works, the one that has received the least critical attention.1 It has only been dealt with by scholars very briefly (if at all), and there has been no attempt to introduce it within the grander narrative of Maeztu’s intellectual evolution. It is my aim in this paper to shed some light on this work, outlining both its principal features and the interpretative difficulties it poses for Maeztu scholars. I will also attempt to resolve these difficulties by inserting the text within a genre that has received scant critical attention: the crónicas del frente written by Spanish authors during the First World War. I will argue that the more striking features of Inglaterra en armas recur in similar texts written by Maeztu’s contemporaries, and that this can be explained by the rigidity of the pro-Allied propaganda discourse in which he and his peers were engaging... |
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