La literatura y la Gran Guerra: Siegfried Sassoon y las trincheras

Authors

  • Tomás Albaladejo
  • David Amezcua Gómez
Keywords: Interdiscursive analysis, Poetry, Novel, War, Trench, Frontline, Battle, Antibellicism

Abstract

This article deals with two works by the English writer Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), a poem (Trench Duty) and one of his novels of autobiographical foundation (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), within the literature on the World War I. Our aim is to display the main devices by means of which both works represent war and its effect on the writer as the subject of writing. Perspectives and tools of interdiscursive analysis are used in order to detect the key lexical-semantic constructions in the studied Sassoon’s texts. Dawn and sunset as well as night and day constitute a circular time set in frontline life centered on the trench and viewed from it. The discursive role of the trench is explained as that of a place protected from external danger, despite the inherent risks of the battle. A dialectical relation between the inner space and the outer one is charted as the interdiscursive main feature from the position of the subject in the trench (the cellar and the dug-out as well) on the opposite side to unguarded situations. Trench plays in this way a constructive interdiscursive function in both the poem and the novel by Sassoon from an antibellicist perspective.

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Published
15-05-2015
How to Cite
Albaladejo, T., & Amezcua Gómez, D. (2015). La literatura y la Gran Guerra: Siegfried Sassoon y las trincheras. Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Hispanoamericana y Teoría de la Literatura, (19), 21–37. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/227121
Issue
No. 19 (2014): La Primera Guerra Mundial y el acontecer literario en España: 1914
Section
Artículos

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