THIS MODULE AIMS: 1. to introduce students to a range of war writings of World War I ranging from narratives of actual battle experiences to the novels, short stories, letters, diaries written in captivity or on home front by women and to enable them to map and compare the moods of observers’ status as a soldier from ranks or as an officer or as woman on the home front during World War I; 2. to evaluate the extent to which the production and interpretation of war writing are conditioned by the status of the soldier or as a member of aid detachment; 3. to show how different attitudes were developed by civilians and soldiers towards the enemy; 4. to view women’s responses to the war and its outcomes; 5. to view and compare the feelings and psychology of all combatant soldiers and captive soldiers held in prison camps.

This module examines the responses of soldiers of different nations, scilicet German, Turkish and English, to the conflict, from the beginning of the Great War to the end. How these writing soldiers and others felt and observed the war and their thoughts on war are the subject matter. 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. Sexuality of the women, both on the home front and battlefront, and the soldiers will be subject matter of this module. The module will enable the students to view soldiers of different nations as writers of war memoirs, novels, diaries and letters.