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War and words : representations of military conflict in literature and the media / edited by Wojciech Drag, Jakub Krogulec and Mateusz Marecki.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and literature.
- War and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Despite the vast body of texts inspired by warfare - from The Iliad to Maus - war writing is perpetually haunted by the notions of unrepresentability and inadequacy. War and Words examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media. This multifocal study draws on a wide array of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, posthumanism, masculinity, trauma, spatiality and media studies, and brings together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans' testimonies, imaginative fiction, computer games, En
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9424-9
- OCLC:
- 949669829
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