The First World War and the Homefront in Canada: Broadening the Analysis

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.

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Ale na razie tu cisza” – fotografie sprzed katastrofy w wybranych zapisach literackich (Stefan Chwin, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wisława Szymborska)

Przegląd Humanistyczny ◽

10.32798/2657-599x.ph.2020-1.5 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 65-80

Author(s):

Magdalena Strąk

Keyword(s):

Time Perspective ◽

Terrorist Attack ◽

First World War ◽

General Concept ◽

Literary Texts ◽

World War ◽

The Past ◽

The First World War ◽

History Of ◽

First World

The work aims to show a peculiar perspective of looking at photographs taken on the eve of the broadly understood disaster, which is specified in a slightly different way in each of the literary texts (Stefan Chwin’s autobiographical novel Krótka historia pewnego żartu [The brief history of a certain joke], a poem by Ryszard Kapuściński Na wystawie „Fotografia chłopów polskich do 1944 r.” [At an exhibition “The Polish peasants in photographs to 1944”] and Wisława Szymborska’s Fotografia z 11 września [Photograph from September 11]) – as death in a concentration camp, a general concept of the First World War or a terrorist attack. Upcoming tragic events – of which the photographed people are not yet aware – become for the subsequent recipient an inseparable element of reality contained in the frame. For the later observers, privileged with time perspective, the characters captured in the photograph are already victims of the catastrophe, which in reality was not yet recorded by the camera. It is a work about coexistence of the past and future in the field of photography.

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War Damage: Four Poets of the First World War

Comparative Critical Studies ◽

10.3366/ccs.2011.0018 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (2-3) ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Richard Price

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

First World

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A New History for a New Channel: The Great War and the Launch of BBC2

Journal of British Cinema and Television ◽

10.3366/jbctv.2017.0374 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 283-297 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Taylor Downing

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Great War ◽

World War ◽

Front Line ◽

Television History ◽

The First World War ◽

The Great War ◽

First World ◽

Intense Debate ◽

Do So

This article considers the making of the BBC2 series, The Great War, and examines issues around the treatment and presentation of the First World War on television, the reception of the series in 1964 and its impact on the making of television history over the last fifty years. The Great War combined archive film with interviews from front-line soldiers, nurses and war workers, giving a totally new feel to the depiction of history on television. Many aspects of The Great War were controversial and raised intense debate at the time and have continued to do so ever since.

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