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almahu_9947415061002882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) :
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ISBN:
9780511782275 (ebook)
Content:
Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide reading and close rhetorical analysis to illuminate how writers have met the challenge of representing violence, chaos and loss. War gives rise to problems of epistemology, scale, space, time, language and logic. She emphasises the importance of form to an understanding of war literature and establishes connections across periods and cultures from Homer to the 'War on Terror'. Exciting new critical groupings arise in consequence, as Byron's Don Juan is read alongside Heller's Catch-22 and English Civil War poetry alongside Second World War letters. Innovative in its approach and inventive in its encyclopedic range, Authoring War will be indispensable to any discussion of war representation.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: authoring war -- 1. Credentials -- 2. Details -- 3. Zones -- 4. Duration -- 5. Diversions -- 6. Laughter -- Conclusion: to perpetual peace.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107003903
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782275
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