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Writing, Discipline, War

Summary/Abstract: Soldiers of the First World War did not only fight, but they also wrote while on the battlefronts. During the Great War, not only goods were mass produced, but texts as well. This short paper intends to present an analysis of how texts produced on the battlefront are a tool, a mechanism for internalising the war narrative. It analyses writing not as a means for communication or for representing, but rather as a means for predefining events, for disciplining oneself, for creating the individual disposition of self-sacrifice. Building on Foucault’s concept of discipline and Goffman’s dramaturgical sociology, this paper is based on a close reading of the corpus of one particular soldier of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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