Format:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
ISBN:
9781843843818
Series Statement:
Essays and Studies v.Volume 67
Content:
Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; I Ideologies; Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century; Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle; 'Is this War?': British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War; II Interpretations; Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England; 'The Reader myghte lamente': The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play; Shakespeare's Casus Belly
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or, Cormorant War, and the Wasting of Men on Shakespeare's Stage or, Eating Wars and Digesting Plays; or, The Art of Chucking Men Into Pits; or, Shakespeare, Tacitism, and Why Plato Don't Matter; Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor' of Elizabeth Murray Inman; Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville; III Aftermaths; A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead; The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an Airman'
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Does Tolstoy's War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant?Index; Backcover
Additional Edition:
9781782043140
Additional Edition:
Print version War and Literature
Language:
English
Keywords:
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