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War / editor, Alex Vernon, Hendrix College.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War in literature.
- War and literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edited by Alex Vernon, Associate Professor of English at Hendrix College and author and editor of several volumes of war-related nonfiction and literary criticism, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. For readers who are studying it for the first time, four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches. Works discussed include Henry V; captivity narratives from Colonial America to Vietnam to modern-day Afghanistan; poetry from the Civil War and World War I; Holocaust literature; and selections from war journalism, women's writings on war, veterans' memoirs, and soldiers' letters home. With sources ranging from the usual suspects (Hemingway, Vonnegut and O'Brien) to writers not as commonly associated with war literature such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, and a host of modern science fiction writers, the volume provides a unique viewpoint on just how deeply the specter of war has imbedded itself in the consciousness and artistic expressions of human beings.
- Contents:
- On war / Alex Vernon
- Critical contexts. Reading the Iliad: a history / Will Hacker ; Shakespeare's Henry V and just war theory / Mark A. Heberle ; American literature of the nuclear age / Doug Davis ; Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War: inventing the poetry of mass death / Ed Folsom
- Critical readings. Testaments of youth: writing the US war in Vietnam / Philip Beidler ; Other worlds, other wars: science fiction reinvents war / Tim Blackmore ; Women writing war: female voices from the combat zone / Catherine Calloway ; Focus Afghanistan: deep documentary immersion and genre debt in Restrepo, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, and Armadillo / Douglas A. Cunningham ; The veterans' tale: causes and consequences / Pat C. Hoy II ; From Brooke's "The soldier" to Owen's "Dulce et decorum est": the demise of "beautiful death" in the new poetics of World War I / Tom McGuire ; Strangers in strange lands: distorted landscape in the modern American military memoir / John Nelson ; The captivity narrative: an American genre / Robert C. Doyle ; War and witnessing / Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton ; Native American military involvement in (de)colonial contexts / Lindsey Claire Smith ; "Stubborn experiments": bearing witness in Holocaust literature / Dorian Stuber
- Resources. Additional works on war ; Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781283803861
- 1283803860
- 9781429837880
- 1429837888
- OCLC:
- 820011238
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