War / editor, Alex Vernon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublication details: Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, �2013.Description: xii, 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781429837408 (hbk.)
  • 1429837403 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 56 .W3 W325 2013
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.

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.

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