Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 273 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108861144
Content:
This book explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to World War II. From a transnational and comparative standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war, the literature on the world war of 1939-45, and modern war writing in general. It determines the main features of the language of absolute war, and how it gravitates around fundamental semantic clusters, such as the horror, terror, and the specter. The Literature of Absolute War studies the variegated responses given by literary authors to the extreme and seemingly unsolvable challenges posed by absolute war to epistemology, ethics, and language. It also delves into the different poetics that articulate the writing on absolute war, placing special emphasis on four literary practices: traditional realism, traumatic realism, the fantastic, and catastrophic modernism.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-268
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108495127
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108817035
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Santiáñez, Nil The literature of absolute war Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781108495127
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Weltkrieg
DOI:
10.1017/9781108861144
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Santiáñez, Nil
