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The Time of War as the Experience of Lived Time, During and After the Conflict The Time of War as the Experience of Lived Time, During and After the Conflict
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Day/Night in the Trenches: An Example of Altered Temporal Cycles Day/Night in the Trenches: An Example of Altered Temporal Cycles
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The Wristwatch: A Sign of the Times of War The Wristwatch: A Sign of the Times of War
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The Moment of the Time of War: Zero Hour The Moment of the Time of War: Zero Hour
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The Broken Line of Time: A Reordering of the Relationship with Past and Future The Broken Line of Time: A Reordering of the Relationship with Past and Future
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13 Eschatological Presentism in Protestant German Theology of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
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11 ‘Time and the Soldier’: Experiences of Time in the Great War
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Published:October 2021
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Abstract
This chapter digs into the variety of temporal challenges posed by the war, and uncovers the practice of writing as a way of locating one’s self in time. Soldiers living at the front experienced a sense of dislocation as they tried to reconstruct a sense of the flow of time through days and nights and weeks whose meaning had been shattered. The cycle of time from day to day was distorted. But for soldiers there was also an intense alternative experience of time: the catastrophic or paroxysmal moment of battle. The intensity of the battle created a cæsura in time, an insurmountable barrier between the past and the present. This extended the psychological trauma of soldiers, but they tried to rebuild time through correspondence, through planning for leave, and through countless little rites that allowed them to reconstruct their mastery of time. The challenges to human temporal rhythms posed by modern technological change were thus distilled intensely and poignantly by the war. The generations that followed lived with that changed temporality, unable easily to find a way of counter-balancing the destruction of human time it had brought about.
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