THIS COURSE AIMS: 1. to introduce students to a range of war novels and memoirs of World War I, and to map the moods of observation of the war depending on the status of the soldiers who fought during World War I; 2. to consider the extent to which the production and interpretation of war novels are conditioned by cultural, social and political factors; 3. to evaluate the importance of religion and nationality which become driving force for the soldiers.

This course examines the responses of soldiers of different nations, namely German, Turkish and English, to the conflict, from the beginning of the Great War to the end. How these writing soldiers felt and observed the war and their thoughts on war are the subject matters. Each nation and each soldier created his own point of view in terms of national interest in this war, and consequently they developed different attitudes towards the war. The course will enable the students to view soldiers of different nations as writers of war novels.